EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
26 December 1986
AUCTIONS
By Rita REIF
A NINE-YEAR worldwide study of photography auctions - one of the newest and most volatile areas of the art-auction market - has produced a highly sophisticated reference work that is expected to have repercussions in other areas of art research. Bhupendra Karia's ''Artronix Index: Photographs at Auction,'' published last month by Artronix Data Corporation, 9 East 96th Street, documents, according to Mr. Karia, each of the 264 photography auctions held in a score of houses throughout the world between 1952 and 1984. He chose 1952, he said, because it was the year Swann Galleries in New York held this country's first postwar auction of photography - from the estate of Albert C. Marshall, a Rhode Island industrialist. Mr. Karia is completing a second volume, which will cover 1985 and 1986; it will be issued in March 1987, he said. Distribution for both works is being handled by the photography dealer Daniel Wolf, 30 West 57th Street. The first volume costs $2,500; the second volume will be $700, Mr. Karia said.
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