Helmut Newton - Photographs London Friday, November 21, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    Quartet Books, Helmut Newton Portraits: Photographs from Europe and America, 1987, pl 122; National Portrait Gallery, London, Helmut Newton: Portraits, 1988, p. 77 and pl. 72; Schrimer Art Books, Helmut Newton: Big Nudes, 1990, p. 83

  • 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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'Lisa Lyon in her studio', Venice, California

1981
Gelatin silver print.
200 x 95.9 cm. (78 3/4 x 37 3/4 in).
Signed, titled, dated and annotated 'For the beautiful Rita, A.P' in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount.

Estimate
£60,000 - 80,000 

Photographs

22 Nov 2008, 3pm
London