Auction 912 Contemporary Art (including photography) Thursday, November 29, 2007 10.30am (Lot 600-908) 2.30pm (Lot 909-1158) Preview November 22-27, 2007 Auction 913 Photography Saturday, December 1, 2007 11am Preview November 24-30, 2007 Highlights of the auction 913 photography on Saturday, December 1, containing approx. 285 lots are works by Herlinde Koelbl, Brassaï, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton and Sam Shaw. Further 66 photographs by contemporary artists like Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore and Andy Warhol will be to auction November 29, auction 912 contemporary art. The most expensive work in auction 913 photography is by Helmut Newton, estimated 30-35.000 €. His 100.3 x 100 cm measuring gelatin silver print Piscine, Old Beach Hotel, Monte Carlo dating 1981 is an undercooled nude by night, no. 3 from an edition of 27 (lot 191). By the master of erotic photography are three further prints offered: the exposed Paloma Picasso, Saint Tropez from an edition of 40, estimated 7-10.000 € and Cyberwomen No. II (4-5.000 €). Another highlight of the auction will be Herlinde Koelbls Angela Merkel from the series "Traces of Power" (1991-2006). This work contains 18 pieces and is from an edition of only 3. It is part of Herlinde Koelbls long-term project which she carried out from 1991 to 1998 to portrait 15 characters of politics and economy yearly. In her investigation if power changes people, she is interested in more than body language and not only bound to photography. The concept of her body of work includes equally interviews and video from which she extracts key sentences to complement the photographs. Supplementary to the 8 pairs of portraits from the 90s are 2 photographs by Angela Merkel showing her as the first female chancellor in the history of the Federal Republik of Germany (Lot125, 27-20.000 €). The Joy of Marilyn is a portfolio containing 5 photographs by Sam Shaw dating from 1957, estimated 8.000 € (lot 228). These pictures are exceeded by the complete Marylin-Set (series A-D) with an estimate of 28.000 € (lot 227). Robert Mapplethorpe is providing two portraits and a study of nature. Estimated highest (12.000 €) is a photograph of Grace Jones from 1988 (Lot 168, ex.1/10). The portrait of the writer William Burroughs is offered for 9.000 € as well as a picture of a shell from the sea at 9-10.000 €. More than 30 years Brassaï sleuthed the archaically seeming graffities at the walls of Paris. In these pictures one can sense the interest Brassaï had in primitive and outsider art. Two graffity-photographs are available as vintages and are offered at the estimate of 10-12.000 € (lots 37/38). The exposure of an Buste d'enfant dating 1906 by Constantin Brancusi is valued by 6-8.000 €; a self-portrait from 1932/33 by 7-9.000 € (lots 35/36). The estimate of Pal Rab by Germaine Krull is estimated 6.000 €. Three vintages by the artist are dedicated to studies of hands (lot 136). Man Ray is presented with a photograph of a rayography of 1927 for 6.000 € (lot 153). André Kertész's Port Marine, a vintage dated 1926, is estimated by 7.000 € (lot 121). The most expensive photography from the 19th century is by Eugène Atget. His albumen print Juvisy, belles fontaines from 1902 has an estimate of 7-8.000 € (lot 11). Umbo's (Otto Umbehr) vintage Heimkehr (1946) served once as the cover picture of the magazine "Der Spiegel" (No. 6, Februrary 8, 1946) and origins from the estate of the artist (lot 252, 7.000 €). Alltogether Umbo is represented by 9 exposures from the late 1920s up to the early 1950s, among these 4 photographs from a series documenting a Salvage Depot where military equipment was altered into household supply (lot 253, 6-8.000 €). Estimated by 6-7.000 € is an exposure from 1944 of a dying child in the hands of a soldier by W. Eugene Smith (lot 230). Klaus Kinold shows the reconstruction of St. Bonifaz in Munich 1987 (lot 123, 8-10.000 €). 1993 Albert Watson took a nude of Kate Moss in Marrakech (lot 262, 7-8.000 €). A nude by Sasha Stone from the 1930s is estimated 4.000 € (lot 238) and Albert Rudomine with another nude of 1930 6.000 € (lot 209). Herb Ritts' Helena (Helena Christensen) from 1996 is offered as ex. 9/25 for 5-7.000 € (lot 206). From the context of Andy Warhol's New Yorker Factory are amongst others a portrait of Andy Warhol (as female) by Christopher Makos from 1981 (lot 152, 2.500-3.000 €) as well as photographs by William Linich alias Billy Name, containing of the Andy Warhol-"Superstars" Ultra Violet (lot 183, 2-2.500 €) and Susan Bottomly (alias International Velvet) (lot 182, 2.500-3.000 €). Billy Name lived in Warhol's Factory from 1963 until 1970 and was his and his environments most important documentalist. As a photographer he took (along with Stephen Shore) uncounting pictures in this period and documented the New Yorker scene during the late 1960s. Susan Bottomly belonged to Warhol's "superstar"-actresses and occurs in several Warhol-productions (amongst others in "The Chelsea Girls"). Estimated by 10-12.000 € are the works by Fotoanschlag. The portfolio from 1988, shortly before the end of the GDR, was created by 32 photographers and has never been sold commercially, but only given to the involved artists and few other persons (lot 165). The photographic highlights of auction 912 contemporary art at November 29 are amongst others two snapshot-style photos-series documenting the New York theatre scene, in which Andy Warhol was interested. Some of the photographs were published in May 1969 in an article in Esquire Magazine. Lot 1124 consists of 61 color photographs showing the famous Performance-Art group "The Dirty Half Dozen", among them Yayoi Kusama, Louis Abolafia, Charlotte Moorman and Carolee Schneeman (90-110.000 €). Lot 1125 includes 8 color photographs of the Performance group "Theatre of the Ridiculous" featuring the author Ronald Tavel, actress Sierra Bandit and the director and founder of the group John Vaccaro. Andy Warhol had the photographs printed on Kodak Paper as so-called "Bonus Photos" of the Royaltone Photo Service and published them in this form. This product was theoretically aimed at amateur photography. It consisted of a large photograph "for your album" and a smaller photograph "for your wallet" (12-15.000 €). Outstanding in the section of contemporary photography are further: Hiroshi Sugimoto's seapiece Mediterranean Sea, La Ciotat (20.000 €, lot 1090) and Jürgen Klauke's series of 6 Transformer dating from 1972/73 with an estimate of 24-26.000 € (lot 832). Thomas Ruff's large-scale photographs W.H.S. 08 (20-25.000 €) and H.T.B. 10 (22-27.000 €) are showing Mies van der Rohe's icons of Neues Bauen from the 1920s blurred (lot 1036/1037). The Wittgenstein-Villa by Günther Förg is estimated by 15-20.000 € (lot 726). Riss I, including 4 photographs from 1994 by Thomas Florschütz has an estimate of 20-25.000 € (lot 720). Estimated by 13-15.000 € is Kitzsteinhorn IX, a photographic work of 2 pieces by Walter Niedermayr, originating from 1997 (lot 922).