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IRVING PENN (1917–2009)
»Marcel Duchamp (with Pipe in Mouth)«, New York 1948
Gelatin silver print, toned in selenium, printed in 1984
24,3 x 18,8 cm
€ 12.000 / € 20.000–28.000 | | | 16th Westlicht Photo Auction | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bids can be placed online at www.westlicht-auction.com, in written form, via phone, worldwide live at www.liveauctioneers.com or in person at WestLicht, Westbahnstrasse 40, 1070 Vienna. | | | | | | | | | WILLIAM KLEIN (* 1928)
Gun 1, Broadway, New York 1954
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1980
23,1 x 17,1 cm
€ 2.800 / € 4.000–5.000 | | | | | | Muhammad Ali in an ideal boxing pose under water – thus Flip Schulke captured him in a swimming pool in Miami in 1961 (Lot 158, estimated at 5,000–6,000 Euros). An anti-Vietnam demonstrator offering a soldier a flower in Marc Riboud’s iconic image (Lot 102, estimated at 4,500–5,500 Euros). The »Hindenburg« bursting into a ball of fire in 1937 in Lakehurst, as viewed by Sam Shere (Lot 76, estimated at 3,000–3,500 Euros).
Great personalities such as these, time travel into history – all these will be found among the offers of the 16th WestLicht Photo Auction. It includes 218 lots; photographs and selected photo books prove that no other medium has shaped our image of the world to the same extent as photography during the past century and a half.
In this spirit, the Magnum Agency has upheld the highest standards for the past 70 years. The 12 vintage prints from the series »The Great Leap Forward«, 1958, by Magnum co-founder Henri Cartier-Bresson are the best proof (Lot 93, estimated at 30,000–35,000 Euros). | | | | | | | | | Lot 93
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908–2004)
A set of 12 images from »The Great Leap Forward«, China 1958
12 vintage silver prints
Each c. 30 x 20 cm
€ 15.000 / € 30.000–35.000 | | | | | | His colleague René Burri documented soldiers jumping from a helicopter onto the Vietnam battlefields in 1963 (Lot 101, estimated at 4,000–5,000 Euros); Elliott Erwitt captured a cheerful Che Guevara on film in 1964 (Lot 117, estimated at 3,000–3,500 Euros).
What would fin-de-siècle Vienna be without photography? Anton Josef Trčka’s »Reclining Nude VI« of 1926 is no less appealing than any of Gustav Klimt’s nudes (Lot 8, estimated at 20,000–25,000 Euros), and in 1914 Heinrich Kühn achieved an impressive example of Pictorialism: »The Water Glass« (Lot 9, estimated at 10,000–12,000 Euros).
Two masterworks which exerted a strong influence on the image of femininity are Bill Brandt’s »London (Nude with Bent Elbow)« of 1952 (Lot 49, estimated at 10,000–12,000 Euros) and Horst P. Horst’s »Mainbocher Corset« (Lot 37, estimated at 30,000–35,000 Euros). The latter is one of the most-quoted photographs in the history of art, a symbol of timeless beauty, captured in the early morning hours of August 11, 1939 in Paris. | | | | | | | | | PHILIPPE HALSMAN (1906–1979)
Tippi Hedren, Hitchcocks ‘The Birds’, 1962
Vintage silver print
34,3 x 27,2 cm
€ 1.800 / € 3.000–3.500 | | | | | | The naked body was also the focus of Viennese Actionism. The photographer Ludwig Hoffenreich accompanied the action »Transfusion« by Günter Brus and his wife Ana at the Perinetkeller in Vienna’s Brigittenau district in 1965. It is an action that stands out among the early works (Lot 186, 12 prints, estimated at 20,000–25,000 Euros).
Marcel Duchamp, the precursor of Surrealism and Dada and co-founder of Concept Art, was photographed in 1948 by Irving Penn, who was shooting portraits of the New York post-war arts scene for Vogue (Lot 71, estimated at 20,000–28,000 Euros). Others too tried to reveal the nature of artists behind their masks and roles: Gottfried Helnwein portrayed the 30-year-old Michael Jackson in 1988 (Lot 198, estimated at 7,000–8,000 Euros), Annie Leibovitz captured Brad Pitt in Las Vegas in 1994 (Lot 199, estimated at 5,000–6,000 Euros), and Bettina Rheims showed »Madonna sitting on the floor and holding her dress« in New York in 1994 (Lot 201, estimated at 3,500–4,000 Euros).
On the same weekend will be the ViennaPhotoBookFestival & Print Market, organized by OstLicht. Gallery for Photography and AnzenbergerGallery at Brotfabrik Wien. With Starguest Magnum-Legend Bruce Davidson. | | | | | | | | | HAROLD EDGERTON (1903–1990)
Cranberry Juice Drop into Milk, 1960
Dye transfer print
40,5 x 35,5 cm
€ 3.000 / € 5.000–6.000 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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