| | | | | | | | THOMAS HOEPKER (*1936)
Muhammad Ali’s Punch, Chicago 1966
27.4 x 20.8 cm
Starting price: 8,000 € / Estimate: 16,000–18,000 € | | | | | Ostlicht Photo Auction | | | Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 6pm
Nobuyoshi Araki » Diane Arbus » Anton Giuglio Bragaglia » René Burri » Edward S. Curtis » František Drtikol » Ernst Haas » Thomas Hoepker » David LaChapelle » Arnulf Rainer » August Sander » Rudolf Schwarzkogler » Anton Josef Trčka » ... | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ARNULF RAINER (*1929)
Death mask Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1978
59.5 x 45.5 cm
Starting price: 8,000 € / Estimate: 14,000–16,000 € | | | | | | The program of the upcoming OstLicht Photo Auction already caused a stir in advance. "I am delighted that my team and I have succeeded in putting together a particularly exciting mix of exclusive classics and numerous photographic surprises," says gallery owner Peter Coeln. "I'm sure we can expect particularly lively bidding wars with this offering."
Among the undoubtedly most coveted lots in what is already the 25th photo auction led by Peter Coeln is an image that is inscribed into humanity's collective memory like few others. For many, it is René Burri's best picture – even though the 1963 portrait of the self-confident, cigar-smoking Cuban revolutionary leader Che Guevara initially appeared only small and heavily cropped in the original Look magazine reportage. It would probably have gathered dust in the Magnum archives if the proponents of the 1968 movement had not rediscovered it and stylized it as the “Che icon”. As a result, the image was reproduced millions of times. When Burri returned to Cuba in 1968, he found his masterpiece printed everywhere on T-shirts – some of which he eventually bought for his children. Today, prints signed and dated by the photographer himself are extremely rare. This perfectly preserved gelatin silver print of "Che Guevara y su tabaco" from the 1990s is offered with a starting price of 6,000 euros (estimate: €10,000 - 12,000). | | | | | | | | | RENÉ BURRI (1933–2014)
Che Guevara y su tabaco, Havana 1963
21.5 x 32 cm
Starting price: 6,000 € / Estimate: 10,000–12,000 € | | | | | | An equally famous icon was created by Thomas Hoepker in 1966 for a reportage in German magazine Stern about the most legendary boxer of all time. "Muhammad Ali's Punch" was taken during a visit by the first German Magnum photographer to Ali's training camp in Chicago. When the champion spotted him, he climbed out of the ring and, unexpectedly, fired a quick right-left-right combination right in front of Hoepker's lens. Hoepker managed to get a single sharp and properly exposed shot – one that many still consider the best picture of Muhammad Ali ever taken. The vintage print, printed and signed by the photographer himself, is the only one from his private collection. On the back he noted, "Muhammad Ali demonstrating his punch, which had the same power as a 3 ton blow." This exceptional collector's item is auctioned with a starting price of 8,000 euros (estimate: €16,000 - 18,000).
In addition to these two classics, a contemporary work by the exceptional Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer is expected to be met with lively interest. Rainer with his overpaintings created a congenial combination of photography and gestural painting from the 1950s onwards. Today, his works, which were often controversial in the beginning, are enjoying increasing popularity on the international art market and have repeatedly generated top results at auctions.The offered photograph of the "Totenmaske der Schriftstellerin Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach" from 1978 has been reworked by Rainer several times, who photographically documented each phase of this creative process. The picture was conspicuously signed by the artist (estimate: € 14,000 - 16,000). | | | | | | | | | NOBUYOSHI ARAKI (*1940)
Untitled, 1991
58 x 46 cm
Starting price: 6,000 € / Estimate: 12,000–14,000 € | | | | | | Further highlights of the auction are:
• The 1926 Art Nouveau-oriented "Nude Study VI" by Austrian photographer Anton Josef Trčka, whose estate was largely destroyed in a bombing raid in 1944. The few surviving prints are therefore considered particularly sought-after collector's items (estimate: €14,000 - 18,000).
• "The Cellist", with which Anton Giulio Bragaglia wanted to make visible "the aesthetic value of traces of movement" in 1913. This futuristic work of art of museum quality, signed by the artist himself, is a rare collector's item from an Italian private collection (estimate: € 14.000 - 18.000).
• František Drtikol's "Nude with ropes", which was the only image from this series printed in his now expensively traded photo book "Women in the Light". As documented by the handwritten date, stamps and labels on the original box, Drtikol showed this motif, taken in 1929, at international exhibitions (estimate: 15.000 - 18.000 €).
• An orotone signed by Edward S. Curtis showing a "Wisham Indian spearing salmon in the Columbia River". The gold-backed positive from 1909 is preserved in perfect condition, as is the original frame (estimate: 10.000 - 12.000 €).
• Nobuyoshi Araki's signed "Melon Girl" from the legendary "Colorscapes" series, which made him known internationally and his works sought-after exhibition objects in museums and galleries around the world (estimate: 12.000 - 14.000 €). | | | | | | | | | ERNST HAAS (1921–1986)
Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1969
37,4 x 55,8 cm
Starting price: 2,000 € / Estimate: 3,600–4,000 € | | | | | | • August Sander's "Peasant Girls," which the main representative of New Objectivity and pioneer of conceptual photography took in 1925 for his groundbreaking cycle "Face of our Time" (estimate: €10,000 - 12,000).
• A rare vintage print of Diane Arbus's double portrait "Kenneth Noland and Stephanie Gordon", taken in New York 1966 (estimate: € 16.000 - 18.000).
• A large format and early unique print from Rudolf Schwarzkogler's famous "3rd Action" from 1965, signed by Nitsch, Brus, Adam and the photographer Hoffenreich (estimate: €24,000 - 28,000).
• The gorgeous color photograph of "Route 66, Albuquerque, New Mexico" by Ernst Haas, to whom the New York Museum of Modern Art dedicated the first ever solo exhibition of color photography in 1962 (estimate: € 3,600 - 4,000).
• The unconventional still life "Early Fall" by David LaChapelle, signed by the artist, from the series "Earth Laughs in Flowers", in which he explores the fragility of a society between vice and vanity (estimate: €22,000 - 26,000). | | | | | | | | | DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)
Kenneth Noland and Stephanie Gordon, New York 1966
22,3 x 20 cm
Starting price: 9.000 € / Estimate: 16.000–18.000 € | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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