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Autumn Art + Design

Tue, Sep 30, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present our Autumn Art + Design auction. Highlights include paintings by Harold Town, David T. Grafton, Richard Allen George, and Walter Louis Jones, sculptures by Isidore Grossman, a Don Herron Tubshots photograph, an Alice Ballard Munn whiteware vase, a set of Milo Baughman dining chairs, and other designer lighting, furniture, ceramics, Modern and traditional art, glass, photography, and more.
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Lot 28

Bruce Cratsley 1987 "Torn Jeans" Limited Edition Black and White Photograph

Estimate: $50 - $100
Starting Bid
$30

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1987 black and white photograph titled Torn Jeans by the photographer Bruce Cratsley (American; 1944-1998). Photograph mounted to heavy paper. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered III/XXXV to verso.

 

Provenance: From the collection of Cortland Jessup. Jessup was the owner of the Cortland Jessup Gallery in New York City and Provincetown, MA.

 

Measurements: 20" W x 24" H (heavy paper); 14.75" W x 14.75" H (photograph).

 

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From the collection of Cortland Jessup. Jessup was the owner of the Cortland Jessup Gallery in New York City and Provincetown, MA.