Ronny Jaques Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Ronny Jaques Art Value Price Guide

Feb. 27, 2021
Ronny Jaques, Artist Hans Hofmann, c. 1950
Est: $1,000 - $1,200
Ronny Jaques, Artist Hans Hofmann, c. 1950, Vintage gelatin silver print, 14" x 11". Signed and titled in pen on verso. Artist Biography: The son of a bookmaker who died when he was run over by a train in the London Underground, during World War I Ronny Jaques was sent to boarding school in a coastal town on the Thames. The school was then moved to Bedford, in the middle of England, to avoid air raids. Jaques stayed there until the end of the war. When he was 9 years old, his mother closed his father's business and moved the family to Christie Lake in Canada. In 1925, Jaques moved to New York City with his brother Louis. During that time, he worked for Henry L. Dougherty, the founder of a gas company. In 1932 both brothers quit their jobs and went bicycling through Europe for two years. Jaques then enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London where he learned photography, remaining for about 8 months. He then moved to Canada where he opened the Ronny Jaques Studio at 24 Grenville Street in Toronto. In 1941, he closed the studio to focus on his photography career in NYC. During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he worked as a photographer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Gourmet, Holiday and Town and Country for which he shot fashion, travel, food and lifestyle photography, and for Maclean's during the mid-fifties he worked with writer Bruce Hutchison on a travel series During his free time, Jaques took pictures at The Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York, where he photographed celebrities such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and Nat King Cole. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ronny Jaques had a reputation for being low-key; he eschewed assistants and entourage and preferred to work without set-dressing or elaborate lighting. For his covers for Gourmet of the 1960s the dishes are often set against, or on, a photographic print to serve the magazine's increasing focus on travel by linking the food to a particular city or nation, rather than actually being photographed on location. From Jaques' magazine work, in 1955 curator Edward Steichen selected three of his photographs for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man that was seen by 9 million visitors. In one close-up, three Canadian girls with grim expressions stand at a wire fence against a field that extends to a high horizon on which, in front of an overcast sky stands a house as square and simple as a child's drawing. Another, also shot in Canada, shows a late night in a bar with bentwood chairs stacked in the foreground in silhouette, and at the bottom of the frame sit two men drinking, one of whom throws back his head in laughter while a painting of a bare-breasted woman looks down on them. The third shows a broad tree-lined path in a Colombian park that is lit with dust-filtered low slanting light against which, at centre, appears a park labourer who kneels in prayer as a priest in a cassock passes, his sun umbrella held aloft by his male companion. (Wikipedia)
Keith Delellis Gallery LLC
Feb. 27, 2021
Ronny Jaques, Artist Ben Shahn, c. 1945
Est: $1,000 - $1,200
Ronny Jaques, Artist Ben Shahn, c. 1945, Vintage gelatin silver print, 14" x 11". Signed and titled in pen on verso. Artist Biography: The son of a bookmaker who died when he was run over by a train in the London Underground, during World War I Ronny Jaques was sent to boarding school in a coastal town on the Thames. The school was then moved to Bedford, in the middle of England, to avoid air raids. Jaques stayed there until the end of the war. When he was 9 years old, his mother closed his father's business and moved the family to Christie Lake in Canada. In 1925, Jaques moved to New York City with his brother Louis. During that time, he worked for Henry L. Dougherty, the founder of a gas company. In 1932 both brothers quit their jobs and went bicycling through Europe for two years. Jaques then enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London where he learned photography, remaining for about 8 months. He then moved to Canada where he opened the Ronny Jaques Studio at 24 Grenville Street in Toronto. In 1941, he closed the studio to focus on his photography career in NYC. During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he worked as a photographer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Gourmet, Holiday and Town and Country for which he shot fashion, travel, food and lifestyle photography, and for Maclean's during the mid-fifties he worked with writer Bruce Hutchison on a travel series During his free time, Jaques took pictures at The Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York, where he photographed celebrities such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and Nat King Cole. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ronny Jaques had a reputation for being low-key; he eschewed assistants and entourage and preferred to work without set-dressing or elaborate lighting. For his covers for Gourmet of the 1960s the dishes are often set against, or on, a photographic print to serve the magazine's increasing focus on travel by linking the food to a particular city or nation, rather than actually being photographed on location. From Jaques' magazine work, in 1955 curator Edward Steichen selected three of his photographs for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man that was seen by 9 million visitors. In one close-up, three Canadian girls with grim expressions stand at a wire fence against a field that extends to a high horizon on which, in front of an overcast sky stands a house as square and simple as a child's drawing. Another, also shot in Canada, shows a late night in a bar with bentwood chairs stacked in the foreground in silhouette, and at the bottom of the frame sit two men drinking, one of whom throws back his head in laughter while a painting of a bare-breasted woman looks down on them. The third shows a broad tree-lined path in a Colombian park that is lit with dust-filtered low slanting light against which, at centre, appears a park labourer who kneels in prayer as a priest in a cassock passes, his sun umbrella held aloft by his male companion. (Wikipedia)
Keith Delellis Gallery LLC
Feb. 27, 2021
Ronny Jaques, Bette Davis, c. 1938
Est: $1,000 - $1,200
Ronny Jaques, Bette Davis, c. 1938, Vintage gelatin silver print, 14" x 11". Artist's credit and title in pen on verso. Artist Biography: The son of a bookmaker who died when he was run over by a train in the London Underground, during World War I Ronny Jaques was sent to boarding school in a coastal town on the Thames. The school was then moved to Bedford, in the middle of England, to avoid air raids. Jaques stayed there until the end of the war. When he was 9 years old, his mother closed his father's business and moved the family to Christie Lake in Canada. In 1925, Jaques moved to New York City with his brother Louis. During that time, he worked for Henry L. Dougherty, the founder of a gas company. In 1932 both brothers quit their jobs and went bicycling through Europe for two years. Jaques then enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London where he learned photography, remaining for about 8 months. He then moved to Canada where he opened the Ronny Jaques Studio at 24 Grenville Street in Toronto. In 1941, he closed the studio to focus on his photography career in NYC. During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he worked as a photographer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Gourmet, Holiday and Town and Country for which he shot fashion, travel, food and lifestyle photography, and for Maclean's during the mid-fifties he worked with writer Bruce Hutchison on a travel series During his free time, Jaques took pictures at The Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York, where he photographed celebrities such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and Nat King Cole. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ronny Jaques had a reputation for being low-key; he eschewed assistants and entourage and preferred to work without set-dressing or elaborate lighting. For his covers for Gourmet of the 1960s the dishes are often set against, or on, a photographic print to serve the magazine's increasing focus on travel by linking the food to a particular city or nation, rather than actually being photographed on location. From Jaques' magazine work, in 1955 curator Edward Steichen selected three of his photographs for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man that was seen by 9 million visitors. In one close-up, three Canadian girls with grim expressions stand at a wire fence against a field that extends to a high horizon on which, in front of an overcast sky stands a house as square and simple as a child's drawing. Another, also shot in Canada, shows a late night in a bar with bentwood chairs stacked in the foreground in silhouette, and at the bottom of the frame sit two men drinking, one of whom throws back his head in laughter while a painting of a bare-breasted woman looks down on them. The third shows a broad tree-lined path in a Colombian park that is lit with dust-filtered low slanting light against which, at centre, appears a park labourer who kneels in prayer as a priest in a cassock passes, his sun umbrella held aloft by his male companion. (Wikipedia)
Keith Delellis Gallery LLC
Feb. 27, 2021
Ronny Jaques, Cary Grant (Contact Sheet), c. 1950
Est: $800 - $1,000
Ronny Jaques, Cary Grant, c. 1950, Vintage gelatin silver contact print, 11" x 14". Artist's credit and title in pen on verso. Artist Biography: The son of a bookmaker who died when he was run over by a train in the London Underground, during World War I Ronny Jaques was sent to boarding school in a coastal town on the Thames. The school was then moved to Bedford, in the middle of England, to avoid air raids. Jaques stayed there until the end of the war. When he was 9 years old, his mother closed his father's business and moved the family to Christie Lake in Canada. In 1925, Jaques moved to New York City with his brother Louis. During that time, he worked for Henry L. Dougherty, the founder of a gas company. In 1932 both brothers quit their jobs and went bicycling through Europe for two years. Jaques then enrolled at the Regent Street Polytechnic in London where he learned photography, remaining for about 8 months. He then moved to Canada where he opened the Ronny Jaques Studio at 24 Grenville Street in Toronto. In 1941, he closed the studio to focus on his photography career in NYC. During the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s he worked as a photographer for magazines such as Harper's Bazaar, Gourmet, Holiday and Town and Country for which he shot fashion, travel, food and lifestyle photography, and for Maclean's during the mid-fifties he worked with writer Bruce Hutchison on a travel series During his free time, Jaques took pictures at The Downbeat Club, a jazz club in New York, where he photographed celebrities such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, and Nat King Cole. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Ronny Jaques had a reputation for being low-key; he eschewed assistants and entourage and preferred to work without set-dressing or elaborate lighting. For his covers for Gourmet of the 1960s the dishes are often set against, or on, a photographic print to serve the magazine's increasing focus on travel by linking the food to a particular city or nation, rather than actually being photographed on location. From Jaques' magazine work, in 1955 curator Edward Steichen selected three of his photographs for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man that was seen by 9 million visitors. In one close-up, three Canadian girls with grim expressions stand at a wire fence against a field that extends to a high horizon on which, in front of an overcast sky stands a house as square and simple as a child's drawing. Another, also shot in Canada, shows a late night in a bar with bentwood chairs stacked in the foreground in silhouette, and at the bottom of the frame sit two men drinking, one of whom throws back his head in laughter while a painting of a bare-breasted woman looks down on them. The third shows a broad tree-lined path in a Colombian park that is lit with dust-filtered low slanting light against which, at centre, appears a park labourer who kneels in prayer as a priest in a cassock passes, his sun umbrella held aloft by his male companion. (Wikipedia)
Keith Delellis Gallery LLC
Dec. 10, 2020
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Ghost Story, 1949, tirage argentique, 34
Est: CHF200 - CHF300
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Ghost Story, 1949, tirage argentique, 34x27 cm. Provenance: collection baronne Marion Lambert
Geneve Encheres
Nov. 12, 2020
Ronny Jaques, Illustration for Mystery, 1949
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
Ronny Jaques, Illustration for Mystery, 1949, Vintage gelatin silver print, 14" x 11". Artist's credit and title in pen on verso. Notes in pencil affixed to verso. Numbered in pencil on verso.
Keith Delellis Gallery LLC
Nov. 12, 2020
Ronny Jaques, Cary Grant, c. 1950
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
Ronny Jaques, Cary Grant, c. 1950, Vintage gelatin silver print, 9.25" x 9". Matted. Titled & artist's credit in pen on verso.
Keith Delellis Gallery LLC
Oct. 28, 2020
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008)
Est: £1,800 - £2,200
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) MARLON BRANDO AS STANLEY KOWALSKI IN 'STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE' FOR HARPER'S BAZAAR, 1948, vintage silver gelatin print, image size, 195 x 258mm, signed in pencil by the photographer, recto and by Brando upper verso, also titled in pencil and title in ink, and with photographers copyright stamps
Chiswick Auctions
Sep. 24, 2020
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008)
Est: CHF200 - CHF300
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Ghost Story, 1949, tirage argentique, 34x27 cm
Geneve Encheres
Sep. 25, 2019
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Bette Davis, walking her dog in New York docks
Est: £300 - £500
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Bette Davis, walking her dog in New York docks Gelatin silver print, signed in pencil on the reverse, the edition was 30, on gloss photographic paper, the full sheet, 406 x 305mm (16 x 12in) (framed) Provenance: The Special Photographers Company, London. The Rowley Gallery Ltd., London. This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Forum Auctions - UK
May. 21, 2019
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Bette Davis, walking her dog in New York docks
Est: £1,000 - £1,500
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Bette Davis, walking her dog in New York docks Gelatin silver print, signed in pencil on the reverse, the edition was 30, on gloss photographic paper, the full sheet, 406 x 305mm (16 x 12in) (framed) Provenance: The Special Photographers Company, London. The Rowley Gallery Ltd., London. This lot is sold subject to Artists Resale Rights, details of which can be found in our Terms and Conditions.
Forum Auctions - UK
Apr. 02, 2019
RONNY JAQUES (1910-2008) Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', 1948 stamped Harper's Bazaar copyright credit, credited, titled and variously numbered in unknown hand in pencil (verso) image: 11 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. (29.5 x 25.7
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
RONNY JAQUES (1910-2008) Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in 'A Streetcar Named Desire', 1948 gelatin silver print stamped Harper's Bazaar copyright credit, credited, titled and variously numbered in unknown hand in pencil (verso) image: 11 5/8 x 10 1/8 in. (29.5 x 25.7 cm.) sheet: 13 7/8 x 11 in. (35.1 x 28 cm.)
Christie's
Aug. 13, 2017
Ronny Jaques (1910-2008) Silver Gelatin Print
Est: $75 - $150
Group of women performing a rhythmic gymnastic routine with hand held balls. Stamped Ronny Jaques Studio, 24 Grenville St. - Toronto to reverse with pencil written notations. Editing pen marks to the margins of each corner along with small pin holes. Very good condition with slight surface wear and a minor crease pucker. Gloss finish. Circa 1930's/ 40's. 8" x 7.5" image size; 9.75" x 8" photo paper size
District Auction
Apr. 02, 2016
RONNY JAQUES (1910-2008): VALERIE BETTS
Est: $700 - $900
RONNY JAQUES (1910-2008): VALERIE BETTS Gelatin silver print, signed, titled and with the artist's copyright stamp on the reverse. 14 x 11 in. (sheet), 20 x 16 in. (frame). The Collection of Alan Wanzenberg
STAIR
Nov. 02, 2011
RONNY JAQUES (1910 - 2008)
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
RONNY JAQUES (1910 - 2008) Marlin Brando, Harper's Bazaar, 1948 gelatin silver print, dry mounted on card dedicated by the sitter in pencil (verso) titled and dated in ink (verso) photographer's copyright stamp (verso) image 12 x 10½in. (30.5 x 26.8cm.) paper 14 x 10½in. (35.6 x 26.8cm.)
Christie's
Feb. 12, 2009
RONNY JAQUES (1910-2008)
Est: $7,000 - $9,000
RONNY JAQUES (1910-2008) Fashion studies for Harper's Bazaar, 1948-1950 6 gelatin silver prints, 2 printed later each with credit by the artist in ink (on the verso) each approximately 13 x 10½in. (33 x 26.6cm.) (6)
Christie's
Apr. 10, 2008
Billie Holiday, 1950s
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
RONNY JAQUES (b. 1911) Billie Holiday, 1950s gelatin silver print signed in pencil and titled in ink (on the verso) 9¾ x 10½in. (24.7 x 26.6cm.)
Christie's