Helmut Newton - A Classic Vision: Photographs from A Private European Collection London Wednesday, November 16, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Directly from the artist to Nancy Fouts (1945-2019), sculptural artist
    The Nancy Fouts Studio Sale, Dawsons, London, 10 June 2021, lot 46

  • 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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Upstairs at Maxim's, Paris

1978
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
36.2 x 24 cm (14 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, inscribed in pencil and Monte-Carlo copyright credit stamp on the verso.

Estimate
£4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for £6,930

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A Classic Vision: Photographs from A Private European Collection

Online Auction 16 - 23 November 2022