Helmut Newton - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “When you do fashion photos you have to show something . . . You want the photos to be compelling, but you have to show the designs. I like the challenge of doing both.”
    —Helmut Newton

    • Provenance

      Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich

    • Literature

      Taschen, Helmut Newton: Sex and Landscapes, p. 96

    • 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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147

Gold Watch, Beverly Hills

1996
Chromogenic print, printed later.
62 1/2 x 46 1/2 in. (158.8 x 118.1 cm)
Overall 64 1/4 x 48 1/2 in. (163.2 x 123.2 cm)

Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/3 in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount.

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Estimate
$25,000 - 35,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 11 October 2023