maandag, september 10, 2007
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PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF NANCY RICHARDSON
Sotheby’s New York October 15, 2007 Exhibition opens: October 10
This fall Sotheby’s will hold a single-owner sale of Photographs from the Collection of Nancy Richardson, a small but sophisticated offering of images by some of the most interesting photographers of the 20th century. Highlighting the sale is pioneering Modernist Herbert Bayer’s unique large-format photomontage, Metamorphosis (pictured here, est. $250/300,000), made in 1936. Another sale highlight is Pierre Dubreuil’s Le Premier Round (est. $150/250,000), one of only two prints of this image known to exist. Ms. Richardson also built an important collection of work by photographers associated with the Institute of Design in Chicago, including Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, and Arthur Siegel. Especially exciting is her group of early Siskind exhibition prints, including Ironwork, New York (est. $20/30,000), shown at New York’s Egan Gallery in 1947. Among the Callahan photographs is the early sequential triptych Highland Park, Michigan (est. $30/50,000). Sommer’s complex and unsettling Negative #68 (est. $50/70,000), in which the photographer created a face from chicken parts, is one of only three known prints of this image extant.
The sale also includes work by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Edward Weston, and an oversized unique Photogram ($25/35,000) by contemporary photographer Adam Fuss.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Sotheby’s New York October 16, 2007 Exhibition opens: October 10
Sotheby’s fall various-owners sale of Photographs in New York will be highlighted by a number of masterworks by blue-chip American photographers from the first half of the 20th-century, including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and Paul Strand. The variety of works from Edward Weston will comprise arguably the most significant offering of his work to come to auction in many years: a beautiful platinum nude of Anita Brenner (back) made in Mexico in 1925 (est. $400/600,000-image attached); several Oceano dune studies from 1936 (est. $120/180,000 to $200/300,000); and a rare group of four nude studies of Miriam Lerner from 1925, all but one previously unknown in Weston’s oeuvre.
Cunningham is represented by, among others, a large, early print of her signature image, the 1925 Magnolia Blossom (pictured on page 7, est. $250/350,000); and Paul Strand by his famous Family, Luzzara, Italy, from 1953 (est. $150/250,000). Among the outstanding 19th-century items is a half-plate daguerreotype of Baltimore, one of the finest surviving examples (est. $50/70,000); a group of 10 mammoth-plate photographs by Carleton Watkins of scenes in California and Utah; and a scarce album of Watkins photographs of Kern County, California, made in the late 1880s.
Sotheby’s New York October 15, 2007 Exhibition opens: October 10
This fall Sotheby’s will hold a single-owner sale of Photographs from the Collection of Nancy Richardson, a small but sophisticated offering of images by some of the most interesting photographers of the 20th century. Highlighting the sale is pioneering Modernist Herbert Bayer’s unique large-format photomontage, Metamorphosis (pictured here, est. $250/300,000), made in 1936. Another sale highlight is Pierre Dubreuil’s Le Premier Round (est. $150/250,000), one of only two prints of this image known to exist. Ms. Richardson also built an important collection of work by photographers associated with the Institute of Design in Chicago, including Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, and Arthur Siegel. Especially exciting is her group of early Siskind exhibition prints, including Ironwork, New York (est. $20/30,000), shown at New York’s Egan Gallery in 1947. Among the Callahan photographs is the early sequential triptych Highland Park, Michigan (est. $30/50,000). Sommer’s complex and unsettling Negative #68 (est. $50/70,000), in which the photographer created a face from chicken parts, is one of only three known prints of this image extant.
The sale also includes work by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Edward Weston, and an oversized unique Photogram ($25/35,000) by contemporary photographer Adam Fuss.
PHOTOGRAPHS
Sotheby’s New York October 16, 2007 Exhibition opens: October 10
Sotheby’s fall various-owners sale of Photographs in New York will be highlighted by a number of masterworks by blue-chip American photographers from the first half of the 20th-century, including Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and Paul Strand. The variety of works from Edward Weston will comprise arguably the most significant offering of his work to come to auction in many years: a beautiful platinum nude of Anita Brenner (back) made in Mexico in 1925 (est. $400/600,000-image attached); several Oceano dune studies from 1936 (est. $120/180,000 to $200/300,000); and a rare group of four nude studies of Miriam Lerner from 1925, all but one previously unknown in Weston’s oeuvre.
Cunningham is represented by, among others, a large, early print of her signature image, the 1925 Magnolia Blossom (pictured on page 7, est. $250/350,000); and Paul Strand by his famous Family, Luzzara, Italy, from 1953 (est. $150/250,000). Among the outstanding 19th-century items is a half-plate daguerreotype of Baltimore, one of the finest surviving examples (est. $50/70,000); a group of 10 mammoth-plate photographs by Carleton Watkins of scenes in California and Utah; and a scarce album of Watkins photographs of Kern County, California, made in the late 1880s.
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