Helmut Newton - Photographs New York Tuesday, October 1, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich

  • Literature

    Taschen, Helmut Newton: Sex and Landscapes, p. 53

  • Catalogue Essay

    Please reference lot 18 for an essay on this artist.

  • 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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Grand Hôtel de Milan

2002
Gelatin silver print.
63 x 47 1/4 in. (160 x 120 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 2/3 in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount.

Estimate
$80,000 - 120,000 

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Vanessa Kramer Hallett
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Photographs

New York 30 September & 1 October 2013