Helmut Newton - Photographs London Thursday, November 21, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Hamiltons Gallery, London, 2000
    Christie's, New York, Photographs, 12 February 2009, lot 33

  • Literature

    Felix, The Best of Helmut Newton: Selections from His Photographic Work, p. 24

  • 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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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE JAPANESE COLLECTION

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3pm in Bel Air, Los Angeles

1987
Gelatin silver print.
46.6 x 46.6 cm (18 3/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 1/10 in pencil, Monte Carlo copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠

Sold for £20,320

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London Auction 21 November 2024