Swann Auction Galleries in New York has announced the date of the
African-American Art auction, Thursday, October 8, 2009. Among the 116 artworks for sale are prints is an etching by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859 - 1937), Gateway in Tangier; photographs by Cornelius M. Battey (1873 - 1927); and sculpture by Augusta Savage and Elizabeth Catlett.
From the Swann Galleries website:
Sale 2189 Lot 7
CORNELIUS M. BATTEY (1873 - 1927)
W. E. B. Du Bois.
Silver print, 1918. 343x260 mm; 13 1/2x10 1/4 inches. With the artist's embossed stamp, "The Photographic Division, C.M. Battey, Instructor, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama," lower left....
Estimate $2,000-3,000
