CHRISTIE’S NEW YORK DECEMBER 2010 PHOTOGRAPHS SALE OFFERS EXCEPTIONAL ARRAY OF WORKS Christie’s New York is pleased to announce the upcoming sale of Photographs on December 13, including works by the world’s preeminent photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Beard, and Penn
News-Antique.com - Dec 03,2010 - Photo Caption: Irving Penn (1917-2009)
Dorian Leigh and Ray Bolger, Vogue cover, 1946
Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000
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New York — Christie’s New York is pleased to announce the upcoming sale of
Photographs on December 13, including works by the world’s preeminent photographers
such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Beard, and Irving Penn.
The cover lot, a glamorously cheeky image by Penn, Dorian Leigh and Ray Bolger, Vogue cover,
1946 (pictured above), is personally inscribed by the artist to the model, reflecting their close
professional relationship that developed through countless collaborations. This auction will
bring the fall 2010 season of Photographs sales to a close, with an aim to attract young and
new buyers to the collecting category by offering a wide range of photographs with attractive
estimates.
The sale presents an array of themes varying from portraits of artists such as Joan Miro, Max
Ernst and Henri Matisse to vast landscapes by Ansel Adams and contemporary works. The
auction also features photographs from the collections of The Reader’s Digest Association,
which includes works by Elliot Erwitt and Harry Callahan as well as The Baum Family
Collection, the Chicago-based photograph pioneers, who collected many historically important
vintage black and white photographs by artists such as André Kertész, Helen Levitt and
Bill Brandt. The 187-lot auction is expected to realize between $830,000 and $1.2 million.
Highlights from Christie’s New York December 2010 Photographs Sale Include:
Irving Penn (1917-2009)
Juliet Auchincloss, 1949
Estimate: $30,000 - 50,000
Irving Penn approached the Auchincloss family to
photograph their enchanting child Juliet, after seeing her
likeness in a snapshot. Photographed in an austere white
dress, the child’s empty expression and haunting blue eyes
have been reproduced in many publications, most
significantly, in The Family of Man.
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Ansel Adams
Half-Dome, Merced River Winter, Yosemite, 1938
Estimate: $20,000-30,000
This early image is a spectacular, reverential portrayal of the
American West that Adams was so fond of. This vintage
print features an exquisite balance of form, lights and darks
and offers stupendous accuracy in the details.
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Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985)
Dust is too much for the son of a farmer in Cimarron Co., Okla., 1933
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
From the collection of The Reader’s Digest Association, this
powerful image of a young farm boy exhibits the
photojournalistic style that the New York native was known
for.
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Lucy Saroyan (1946-2003)
Nick Nolte, 1980s
Estimate: $2,000 - 3,000
As an actress and stepdaughter of actor Walter Matthau, Lucy
Saroyan’s inside perspective yielded a multitude of intimate
portraits of some of Hollywood’s most private celebrities,
taken in the 1970s and 80s. Included in this sale are two lots
of three Polaroid prints of Nick Nolte and Richard Pryor,
which represent well the candid quality of her imagery. Most
of her photographs were discovered only after her death in
2003, and have since been shown in many galleries across the
U.S. and abroad.
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Auction:
Christie’s Photographs December 13, 2010 at 10 am
Viewings:
Christie’s Rockefeller Center
