PHOTOGRAPHS
London, 19 May 2016
Sale Total: £ 2,248,625/ $ 3,280,969/ € 2,923,172
Lots Sold: 108 | Lots Offered: 160
Sold by Lot: 68% | Sold by Value: 81%
Genevieve Janvrin, Head of Photographs, Europe, and Yuka Yamaji, Senior Specialist, Director said, “We are thrilled with today’s result, which is the highest sale total to date in London. The ULTIMATE programme, a curated selection of works only available at Phillips, was a great success, producing the sale’s top 5 records. By value, ULTIMATE VOGUE was 99% sold, ULTIMATE was 96% sold, the private European collection of artists’ portraits was 94% sold and Collection of Paul and Toni Arden was 84% sold. The sale’s biggest surprise was the world auction record of £93,750 against an estimate of £15,000-25,000 for Japanese post-war photographer Masahisa Fukase”
TOP TEN LOTS
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Lot |
Description |
Estimate |
Price Achieved |
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58 |
Peter Beard, Maureen and a late-night feeder, 2.00 am, Hog Ranch, 1987 |
£100,000-150,000 |
£149,000/$217,406/€193,697 |
|
3 |
Nick Knight, Black Pearl, 1996 |
£40,000-60,000 |
£93,750/$136,791/€121,873 |
|
64 |
Masahisa Fukase, 襟裳岬 [Erimo Misaki] Cape Erimo from 鴉 [Karasu] Ravens, 1976 |
£15,000-25,000 |
£93,750/$136,791/€121,873 |
|
60 |
Robert Mapplethorpe, Calla Lily, 1986 |
£50,000-70,000 |
£77,500/$113,080/€100,749 |
|
59 |
Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait,1988 |
£60,000-80,000 |
£75,000/$109,432/€97,499 |
|
6 |
Peter Lindbergh Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy Crawford, New York, 1989 |
£70,000-90,000 |
£68,750/$100,313/€89,374 |
|
157 |
Peter Beard, I'll Write Whenever I Can, Koobi Fora, Lake Rudolf, Kenya, 1965 |
£30,000-50,000 |
£68,750/$100,313/€ 89,374 |
|
91 |
Irving Penn, Frozen Foods, New York,1977 |
£50,000-70,000 |
£62,500/$91,194/€81,249 |
|
109 |
Irving Penn, Nude Christy Turlington (C), New York,1933 |
£25,000-35,000 |
£56,250/$82,074/€73,124 |
|
16 |
Irving Penn, Bedside Lamp, New York, 2006 |
£40,000-60,000 |
£55,000/$80,250/€71,499 |
NEW AUCTION RECORDS
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Lot |
Description |
Estimate |
Price Achieved |
|
1 |
Ellen von Unwerth, Parasol, 1990 |
£15,000-20,000 |
£50,000/$72,955/€64,999 |
|
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*previous record price: £37, 500 set in 2013 |
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3 |
Nick Knight, Black Pearl, 1996 |
£40,000-60,000 |
£93,750/$136,791/€121,873 |
|
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*previous record price: £57,650 set in 2009 |
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4 |
Walter Pfeiffer, Untitled (Eva Herzigova), 2009 |
£10,000-15,000 |
£12,500/$18,239/€16,250 |
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*previous record price: £7,500 set in 2015 |
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|
7 |
Steven Klein, Woman in Kitchen, 2011 |
£25,000 -35,000 |
£37,500/$54,716/€48,749 |
|
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*previous record price: £30,000 set in 2013 |
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12 |
Solve Sundsbo, Close, 2009 |
£8,000 -12,000 |
£20,000/$29,182/€26,000 |
|
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*previous record price: £15,625 set in 2015 |
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61 |
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, Facade, Michigan Central Station, Detroit, USA from The Ruins of Detroit, 2007 |
£8,000- 12,000 |
£11,875/$17,327/€15,437 |
|
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*previous record price: £10,770 set in 2015 |
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64 |
Masahisa Fukase, 襟裳岬 [Erimo Misaki] Cape Erimo from 鴉 [Karasu] Ravens, 1976 |
£15,000- 25,000 |
£93,750/$136,791/€121,873 |
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*previous record price: £26,476 set in 2015 |
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67 |
Naoki Honjo, Tokyo Japan from Small Planet, 2002 |
£7,000- 9,000 |
£7,500/$10,943/€9,750 |
|
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*previous record price: £955 set in 2009 |
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69 |
Yoshinori Mizutani, Colors 044, 2013 |
£5,000-7,000 |
£6,250/$9,119/€8,125 |
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*previous record price: £5,000 set in 2015 |
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72 |
Saul Leiter, Lanesville (Variant), 1958 |
£3,000-5,000 |
£11,875/$17,327/€15,437 |
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*previous record price: £10,000 set in 2012 |
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