CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK APRIL PHOTOGRAPHS WEEK TOTALS $11.2 MILLION First-Ever Auction Devoted to Horst P. Horst Realizes $2.5 Million. Spring 2007 Photographs Sales In New York Total $16.7 Million. Photographs at Christie’s New York
April 23-24, 2007
111 $132,000 £66,000 €97,059 $100,000-150,000 U.S. Private
André Kertész, Carrefour, Blois, 1930, Printed 1930s
130 $120,000 £60,000 €88,235 $25,000-35,000 U.S. Trade
Robert Frank, Paris, 1950
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CHRISTIE’S
Photographs
New York – April 23 and 24,2007
[All sold prices include buyer’s premium]
Sold: $7,386,000 £3,693,000 €5,430,882 Sale No: 1825
Lots Sold: 279 Lots Offered: 359 Sold by Lot: 78% Sold by $: 88%
$:£ 2 $: €1.36
Lot Price Estimate Buyer
237 $396,000 £198,000 €291,176 $250,000-350,000 U.S. Private
Irving Penn, Woman in Moroccan Palace (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), Marrakech, 1951, printed 1983
WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR THE ARTIST
227 $288,000 £144,000 €211,765 $250,000-350,000 Asian Private
Helmut Newton, Private Property, Suites I, II and III, 1984
198 $240,000 £120,000 €176,471 $50,000-70,000 U.S. Private
Richard Avedon, Minneapolis.
197 $240,000 £120,000 €176,471 $30,000-50,000 U.S. Private
Richard Avedon, Fashion.
219 $168,000 £84,000 €123,529 $100,000-120,000 U.S. Private
Helmut Newton, Self Portrait with Wife and Models, Paris, 1981.
230 $144,000 £72,000 €105,882 $150,000-250,000 U.S. Trade
Alfred Stieglitz, editor and publisher, Camera Work, An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine devoted to Photography and to the Activities of the Photo-Secession, complete set, 1903-1917.
212 $144,000 £72,000 €105,882 $70,000-90,000 European Private
Ansel Adams, Portfolio Four: What Majestic Word, In Memory of Russell Varian, San Francisco, 1963.
200 $132,000 £66,000 €97,059 $80,000-120,000 U.S. Private
Richard Avedon, Dovima with Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, 1955, printed later.
234 $120,000 £60,000 €88,235 $70,000-90,000 U.S. Private
Jeff Wall, Just Washed, 1997.
294 $114,000 £57,000 €83,824 $40,000-60,000 U.S. Private
Edward Weston, Dunes, Oceano, 1936.
