Lillian Bassman - Photographs New York Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | Phillips

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  • "Everything she does has a positively magic power…She is the only one in the history of photography who managed to visualize that breathtaking moment between the apparition and disappearance of things."
    —Richard Avedon

    • Provenance

      Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, 2011

    • Literature

      Solomon, Lillian Bassman: Women, p. 44

BRAZEN BEAUTY: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION

287

Barbara Mullen aboard Le Bateau-Mouche, Chanel Advertising Campaign, Paris

1960
Pigment print, printed later.
57 3/4 x 41 1/2 in. (146.7 x 105.4 cm)
Signed in ink on an artist's label affixed to the frame backing. Number 8 from an edition of 25.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $37,800

Contact Specialist

Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs
skrueger@phillips.com


Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Chairwoman, Americas
vhallett@phillips.com

Photographs

New York Auction 6 April 2022