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Robert Mapplethorpe
Ajitto, 1981
Gelatin silver print
45.4 x 35.5 cm (50.3 x 40.3 cm)
From an edition of 15
Estimate € 10,000 – 15,000 | | | Lempertz – Photography | | | Auction 1232
Photography | Friday, 1 December 2023, 2 pm (lot 600 – 760)
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Auktion 1234
Day Sale | Saturday, 2 December 2023, 2 pm (lot 300 – 526)
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Erwin Blumenfeld
Decolleté. Cover Study, New York, 1950s
32.2 x 25.2 x (48.4 x 39.9 cm)
One of 10 Dye-Transfer prints from the portfolio "Blumenfeld Color", printed 1984
Estimate € 12,000 - 15,000 | | | | | | Auction 1232: Classical Photography
No fewer than six works by Robert Mapplethorpe will be offered this season. Particularly noteworthy are two nude studies of the model "Ajitto" crouching on a pedestal in an aesthetic back and side view as lifetime prints from 1981, both in excellent condition (lot 716/717, € 10/15,000 each). The four rare gelatin silver prints of famous motifs by Helmut Newton, including "Ernesto Esposito and Frederica della Volpe in my Hotel Room, Montecatini, Italy" from 1988 (lot 722, € 15/20,000) and "Fat Hand and Dollars, Monte Carlo" from 1986 (lot 724, € 6/8,000), come from the same southern German private collection as well. The latter - like Albert Watson's "Monkey with Gun, New York" (lot 748, € 4/5,000) - a subtle, aesthetically packaged social critique.
The earliest highlight of the auction is an albumen print by Charles Marville ("Percement avenue de l'Opéra, Paris") from 1876, in which Charles Garnier's new Paris Opera House can be seen in the background as a symbol of the magnificent architecture of the Second Empire. From 1858 until his death, Marville documented the urban redevelopment of the capital under the direction of Georges-Eugène Baron Haussmann on behalf of the city of Paris (lot 600, € 5/6,000).
A thematic equivalent to this is August Sander's project 'Köln wie es war' (Cologne as it was), a documentation of a city in its 'old' state prior to its transformation or destruction in the war, from which the present Rhine panorama with cathedral originates. It is a signed vintage print in its original frame from 1939 (lot 611, € 6/8,000). Also noteworthy is the likewise signed vintage print of the "Malermeister", which Sander selected for his 'Menschen des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts' (People of the 20th Century). The print comes from the sitter's family (lot 608, € 4/5,000). | | | | | | | | | Auction 1232/lot 626
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Bei Oberhausen, 1931
Gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper, printed c. 1950
28 x 38.2 cm
Estimate € 8,000 – 10,000 | | | | | | Albert Renger-Patzsch, whose works from various creative periods are offered in this auction, produced a 1931 new-objective view of the tracks of an industrial plant near Oberhausen as a warm-toned gelatin silver print on velvety baryta paper, printed presumably around 1950 (lot 626, € 8/10,000).
Man Ray's "Erotique voilée" from the famous series of 1931, with Meret Oppenheim and Louis Marcoussis as actors at the printing press, represents the classic photography of the 1930s in France with a well-preserved print from the 1960s (lot 617, € 4/5,000). The "Couple d'Amoureux", captured by Brassaï in an intimate moment on one of the streets of Paris at night, dates from the same period, offered here as a high-gloss gelatin silver print from the 1960s (lot 615, € 5/7,000). | | | | | | | | | Auction 1232/lot 724
Helmut Newton
Fat Hand and Dollars, Monte Carlo, 1986
Gelatin silver print
37.8 x 56.7 cm (49.4 x 60.5 cm)
From an edition of 10
Estimate € 6,000 – 8,000 | | | | | | Fashion and glamor photography are once again a focal point of this season's offering. The ten colorful dye-transfer prints by Erwin Blumenfeld from the posthumous portfolio "Blumenfeld Color" with elegant fashion shots from the 1940s/1950s are an eye-catcher (lot 640, € 12/15,000). Richard Avedon's portrait of star model Dorothy McGowan in an extravagant outfit by Yves Saint Laurent for the fashion magazine 'Harper's Bazaar' is a vintage print from the 1960s (lot 695, € 6/8,000).
Of the numerous portraits of musicians in this auction, the most interesting ones are by Anton Corbijn (J.J. Cale, R.E.M. and Courtney Love, lots 743-745, € 6/8,000 each) and Terry O'Neill (Amy Winehouse, lot 746, € 4/5,000). | | | | | | | | | Auction 1234/lot 523
Axel Hütte
Bussaco, Portugal, 1999
Chromogenic print on Kodak-Professional paper, face-mounted to plexiglass
97 x 129 cm (133.5 x 164.5 cm frame)
From an edition of 4
Estimate € 10,000 – 15,000 | | | Auction 1234: Contemporary Art and Photography
Numerous high-priced works by contemporary photographers will be auctioned in the Day Sale on December 2. The top lot is the cibachrome print "Thank you Vito" by the American artist Louise Lawler. It is one of her typical photographs of arranged works of art in their secondary context of use – in a museum or, as here, in private spaces (lot 438, € 25/30,000).
With Elger Esser (lots 459-462, € 7/9,000 to € 15/20,000), Axel Hütte (lot 523, € 10/15,000), Andreas Gursky (lot 440, € 7/9,000), Boris Becker (lot 439, € 4/5,000) and Bernd and Hilla Becher (lots 326/327, € 6/8,000), many of the photographs offered on this second auction day belong to the so-called 'Düsseldorfer Schule' (Dusseldorf School of Photography). Thematically the focus is on landscape photography, including numerous large formats. | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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