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ANTON GIULIO BRAGAGLIA (1890–1960)
'LO SCHIAFFO' (THE SLAP), PHOTODYNAMIC, ROME 1912
Image Size 16 x 22,6 cm
Estimate: €30,000 - €40,000 | | | | | OstLicht Photo Auction | | | | Friday, 2 June, 5 pm CEST | | | | | | Preview:
Friday 26 May - Thursday 1 June, 2- 7 pm,
Friday 2 June, 10 am - 5 pm or
by appointment
Expert Guided Tour with Simone Klein
Wednesday 31 May 2023 7 pm, Galerie OstLicht
Contact: Peter Coeln
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WILLY RONIS (1910–2009)
'LE NU PROVENÇAL', GORDES, FRANCE 1949
Image Size 43 x 33,5 cm
Estimate: €4,000 - €5,000 | | | | | | The OstLicht Photo Auction is known for always providing a surprise with unexpected offers. But this is especially true for the spring auction taking place on Friday, 2 June. "We are pleased and proud to be able to offer works from one of the most important photo exhibitions of all times," says Peter Coeln, who founded the WestLicht Photo Auction in 2009 and has continued it as the OstLicht Photo Auction since 2020.
At the end of the 1980s, the Magnum photo agency had assembled the most impressive works from the first 40 years of its existence into a ground-breaking show of works entitled In Our Time. In addition to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ernst Haas, Inge Morath, Erich Lessing, René Burri, Bruce Davidson and Sebastião Salgado, 50 other photographers are represented who have influenced the collective pictorial memory of this world with their iconic images.
"The exhibition is one of the most important milestones in the history of photography and comparable to Edward Steichen's masterpiece Family of Man”, says the former director of the photography department at Sotheby's Europe, Simone Klein, who joins the OstLicht team as an independent expert. "The fact that these historic exhibits are now being offered at an auction for the first time is truly a sensation". | | | | | | | | | 122
REN HANG (1987–2017)
UNTITLED, CHINA 2010
Image Size 67 x 100 cm
Estimate: €7,000 - €9,000 | | | | | | | Of particular interest to collectors: the set to be auctioned in the upcoming - and the two following - is the only one of the three produced at the time in which all works are signed by the photographers themselves, stamped by their estates or Magnum. In the first part, 97 large-format b/w or colour dye transfer prints will be offered: Henri Cartier-Bresson's world-famous portrait of Alberto Giacometti (starting price: €5,000) and his snapshot of two men peering through a fence at a crucial moment. (Starting price: € 3,000) The Dwarf, photographed by Bruce Davidson in his 1958 circus reportage. (Starting price: 5,000 €) The Dog Legs, with which Elliott Erwitt created the world's most famous advertising subject for boots in 1974. (Starting price: € 3,000) Inge Morath's portrait of Mrs. Eveleigh Nash and her chauffeur (Starting price: 3,000 €) Erich Lessing's most famous picture of Charles de Gaulle in Algeria in 1958 (Starting price: 2,000 €) | | | | | | | | | 127
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (1908–2004)
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI AT MAEGHT GALLERY, PARIS 1961
Image Size 56 x 37,6 cm
Estimate: €8,000 - €10,000 | | | | | | | In addition to the Magnum highlights, the OstLicht spring auction features around 120 legendary classics as well as numerous interesting new discoveries. Among them: A vintage print of 'The Slap', in which Anton Giulio Bragaglia wanted to visualise the aesthetic value of traces of movement in 1912 using the example of a "slap in the face" - an extremely rare central work of Futurist photography of museum quality. (Starting price: € 18,000) A unique work by the painter Robert Rauschenberg, taken in 1987 with a 20x24- inch Polaroid camera. (Starting price: 12,000 €) An early signed dye transfer print by Ernst Haas, in which he transformed torn New York billboards into an autonomous colour composition. (Starting price: 5,000 €) | | | | | | | | | | 164
ELLIOTT ERWITT (*1928)
NEW YORK CITY, 1974
Image Size 37,2 x 55,5 cm
Estimate: €5,000 - €6,000 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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