HELMUT NEWTON: PROVOCATEUR
Photographs from the Collection of Simon de Pury
Photographs from the Collection of Simon de Pury
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Helmut Newton
Veruschka in Nice
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- £18,000 - 22,000‡♠
£21,590
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, printed early 1990s.
1975
37.5 x 57.5 cm (14 3/4 x 22 5/8 in.)
Signed, titled, dated by the artist, numbered 2/10 in another hand, in pencil, Monte Carlo copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps, all on the verso.
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Helmut Newton
German | B. 1920 D. 2004Helmut 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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