Helmut Newton - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 12, 2022 | Phillips

Photographs

New York Auction 12 October 2022

  • "Big Nudes, for me, is where he steps away from the fashion magazines and came into his own on what a Helmet Newton woman was. . . Look at the way these women are boldly striding in these pictures. . . They are Amazons."
    —Anne Tucker, who curated the first American retrospective of Newton

    • Provenance

      The sitter
      Davide Manfredi
      Private Collection, Italy
      Private Collection, Italy
      Christie's, London, 16 May 2012, lot 93
      Sotheby's, London, 23 May 2015, lot 1
      Private Collection, New York

    • Literature

      Newton, Mes derniers nus, pl. 7
      Taschen, Helmut Newton: Work, p. 175

    • 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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Helmut Newton

Big Nude XIV, Nice

1993
Gelatin silver print.
14 1/8 x 11 in. (35.9 x 27.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated, inscribed in pencil, copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on the verso.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $22,680

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Photographs

New York Auction 12 October 2022