Helmut Newton - Photographs London Tuesday, November 22, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Directly from the artist to Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922-1992), painter
    Phillips, New York, 13 July 2020, lot 118

  • Literature

    Vogue Paris, November 1973
    H. Newton, White Women, New York: Stonehill, 1976, p. 27
    N. Hall-Duncan et al., The History of Fashion Photography, New York: Alpine, 1979, p. 203

  • Catalogue Essay

    Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922-1992), who acquired these photographs from Helmut Newton, was a painter and teacher based in Los Angeles.

  • 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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101

Paloma Picasso, Saint-Tropez

1973
Gelatin silver print.
31.1 x 20.6 cm (12 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £3,780

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London Auction 22 November 2022