Modern and Contemporary Photography
Klassische und Zeitgenössische Photographie
Auction:
Wed 28 Nov 17:00
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Modern and Contemporary Photography at Villa Grisebach
Auction no. 199 on November 28, 2012, 5 PM (CET)
Photographs from pioneers like Karl Blossfeldt and Eugène Atget to contemporary artists like Daido Moriyama, Andres Serrano and Hiroshi Sugimoto span the offerings of 185 lots to be sold at Grisebach’s Modern and Contemporary Photography Auction on Wednesday, November 28 in Berlin.
In the early years of photography the brothers Paul and Prosper Henry made use of the new technology to gaze at the stars. Their telescopic pictures of “Cassiopée” and “Gémeaux” in albumen prints of 1886 and 1887 unite science with poetry (each € 4,000/6,000). In contrast, Karl Blossfeldt worked with extreme close-ups, his photographs of plants became famous. A contact print of “Equisetum Hiemale, Winterschachtelhalm,” 1915-1925, formerly in the Blossfeldt estate, will be offered at an estimate of € 18,000/22,000. Another extremely rare print is the experimental “Fußgänger vor Karren (Studie zum ‘Ein-Fuß-Gänger’)”, ca. 1950, a vintage from the estate of Otto Steinert (€ 20,000/25,000).
Additional highlights of modern photography include vintages by Margaret Bourke-White, “A.T. & T. long line towers,” 1938 (€ 6,000/8,000), André Kertész’s “Têtes Lumineuses,” created in ca. 1929 in the circles of the Paris Surrealists (€ 12,000/15,000) and Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart’s “Photo-montage No.7,” 1928/1929 (€ 6,000/8,000). Others are Harold Edgerton’s movement study of a tennis player, 1939 (€ 8,000/10,000), Irving Penn’s “Still Life with Grape and Moth, N.Y.,” 1976/1977 (€ 10,000/15,000), Edward Weston’s “Dunes. Oceano” (€ 18,000/22,000), Josef Sudek’s “Steinerner Traum,” 1953 (€ 5,000/7,000) and a still life by Jaroslav Rössler from the 1930s (€ 7,000/9,000).
The leading lots in the contemporary photography selection are two impressive prints, characteristically reworked with animal blood, by Peter Beard, “Cheetah Cubs” (€ 20,000/30,000) and “Kenya Elephant” (€ 30,000/40,000), Andreas Gursky’s “Singapore II” (€ 15,000/20,000), Robert Mapplethorpe’s “Self Portrait (with Make-up)” (€ 12,000/15,000), 13 C-prints from Thomas Ruff’s “Interieurs” (€ 15,000/20,000), as well as works by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Axel Hütte, Jürgen Klauke, Annie Leibovitz, Daido Moriyama, Martin Parr, Andres Serrano and others. Hiroshi Sugimoto will be represented by four works, two from the “Theaters” series (each € 15,000/20,000), and “Farnsworth House” and “Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut” from the “Architecture” series (each € 10,000/15,000). Sugimoto’s large-format “S.C. Johnson Building” (€ 50,000/70,000) will be offered on Thursday, November 29 in Grisebach’s “Selected Works” auction.
Franziska Schmidt
T. 030-885 915-27 · f.schmidt@villa-grisebach.de
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