Helmut Newton - Photographs London Friday, May 16, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    de Pury & Luxemburg, Zurich; Mary Boone Gallery, New York

  • Literature

    Taschen, Helmut Newton: Sex and Landscapes, Köln, 2004, p. 51

  • Artist Biography

    Helmut Newton

    German • 1920 - 2004

    Helmut Newton's distinct style of eroticism and highly produced images was deemed rebellious and revolutionary in its time, as he turned the expected notion of beauty, depicted by passive and submissive women, on its head. Depicting his models as strong and powerful women, Newton reversed gender stereotypes and examined society's understanding of female desire.

    Newton created a working space for his models that was part decadent and part unorthodox — a safe microcosm in which fantasies became reality. And perhaps most famously of all, Newton engendered an environment in which his female models claimed the space around them with unapologetic poise and commanding sensuality. His almost cinematic compositions provided a hyper-real backdrop for the provocative images of sculptural, larger-than-life women, and enhanced the themes of voyeurism and fetishism that run throughout his work.

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Ca del Bosco, Erbusco, Italy

1989
Gelatin silver print, printed 2001.
120 x 120 cm (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in).
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/3 in ink on the reverse of the aluminium flush-mount.

Estimate
£12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for £43,700

Photographs

17 May 2008, 5pm
London