| | | | | | | | Albert Renger-Patzsch. Das Bäumchen (The Young Tree). 1929.
Vintage or early gelatin silver print . 38,4 x 27,8 cm | | | | | Modern and contemporary photography | | | | | | Auction in Berlin:
Wednesday 31 May 2017, 6 p.m.
Preview exhibition Berlin
26 to 30 May 2017
Grisebach, Fasanenstraße 25, 27 und 73
Fri – Mon 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Tues 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | On Wednesday 31 May over 200 lots of modern and contemporary photography will be auctioned at Grisebach in Berlin.
One star lot in this season’s sale is an vintage or early gelatine silver print by Albert Renger-Patzsch, "Bäumchen" ("Little Tree”) of 1929 (38.4 x 27.8 cm). This is a piece of the highest rank: thanks to its powerful presence, a sophisticated composition, and the undoubted technical and artistic virtuosity of the photographer (estimate €40,000 / 60.000). The systematic botanical photographs of Karl Blossfeldt also occupy an important place in the history of photography. In these works Blossfeldt emphasised both the physicality and the graphic quality of the individual plants. A rare vintage print of a leaf of the "Crysanthemum segetum” (1915/25) is offered in the sale with an estimate price of €25,000/30,000. | | | | | | | | | Karl Blossfeldt. Chrysanthemum segetum, Wucherblume. 1915/25.
Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 29,8 x 23,7 cm | | | | | | | The photograph "Borsig Locomotive Works, Berlin” (c. 1930), by the American photographer Margaret Bourke-White, provides a highly unusual and expertly composed view of two elements for a locomotive engine. This photograph (€20.000/30.000) was likely taken as reportage. Bourke-White was an early pioneer in this field and was par- ticularly renowned for her work with LIFE magazine. | | | | | | | | | Margaret Bourke-White. Borsig Locomotive Works, Berlin. Circa 1930.
Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 33,9 x 23,6 cm | | | | | | | Further highpoints within this season’s sale are two photomontages by El Lissitzky for the journal "USSR im BAU” (c. 1937, each €5,000/7,000); Berenice Abbott‘s "Nightview, New York" (€ 8,000/12,000); Jaromir Funke‘s "Stillleben III. Vera Violetta" (€ 8,000/12,000); two vintage prints by Umbo (Otto Umbehr); photographs taken with the first German "Fisheye-Kamera" (each € 5,000/7,000); the Alfred Stieglitz photogravure "The Steerage" (1907), perhaps the best-known motif from his ground-breaking magazine "Camera Work" (€ 6,000/8,000); and further photographs by Aenne Biermann, Andreas Feininger, Robert Frank, Otto Steinert, Josef Sudek and Yva, among others. | | | | | | | | | Yva. Legs. 1927/28.
Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 21,6 x 15,3 cm | | | | | | | 21 photographs from the time of Germany’s division are collected in a special series within the auction: the differences and similarities between life in the east and west made visual by photographers including Christian Borchert, Kurt Buchwald, Arno Fischer, Leonard Freed, Bernard Larsson, Joachim Richau, Evelyn Richter and Frank Thiel. | | | | | | | | | Helmut Newton. Nastassia Kinski and Marlene Dietrich doll, Hollywood. 1983.
Gelatin silver print, before 1986. 58,4 x 38,4 cm (60,2 x 49,8 cm) | | | | | | | Helmut Newton’s "Nastassia Kinski and Marlene Dietrich doll, Hollywood" (€12,0000/15,000) is among the key lots of contemporary photography, along with Beate Gütschow’s monumental fictional city landscape "S#26" (€10,000/15,000). Further impressive works on offer include Sherrie Levine’s 1990 "After Karl Blossfeldt" (€ 6,000/8,000), Thomas Florschütz’s "Diptychon Nr. 133" (€ 5,000/7,000), Rineke Dijkstra‘s young bullfighter "Vendas Novas, Portugal" (€ 4,500/5,500) and works by Sibylle Bergemann, Matthias Hoch, Candida Höfer, Daniel Josefsohn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Judith Joy Ross, Thomas Ruff and Tom Wood. | | | | | | | | | Sherrie Levine. Untitled, from the series: After Karl Blossfeldt. 1990.
Gelatin silver print, 1990. 23,7 x 17,8 cm (25,2 x 20,3 cm) | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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