Helmut Newton’s Sie Kommen, Paris Becomes the
Highest Value Work to be Sold in a Phillips Photographs Auction
At $1.8 Million
Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection
Realizes $5.5 Million
Combined Sale Total: $10,490,875 / £7,894,383 / €9,352,615
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Lots Sold: 202 | Lots Offered: 251 |
Sold by Lot: 80% | Sold by Value: 92% |
Vanessa Hallett, Deputy Chairman, Americas, and Worldwide Head of Photographs said, “Watching Sie Kommen sell for $1.8 million, over three times its low estimate, was an extraordinary start to the sale day. The work is a tour-de-force of fashion photography and is now the highest value work to ever have been sold in a Phillips Photographs auction, as well as a record for the artist. The momentum of the day sale was continued into the evening where we offered the private collection of Susie Tompkins Buell. The sale generated enthusiastic bidding due to the high caliber of the individual prints, which were additionally strengthened by the full vision of this powerful and cohesive collection. It is a special collection that has earned its place in the history of the market.”
Caroline Deck, Senior Specialist, Head of Sale, and Christopher Mahoney, Senior International Specialist said jointly, “It was an honor to work with Susie Tompkins Buell on the sale of works from her celebrated collection. The sale was a remarkable success, and we are thrilled with the price for Edward Weston’s Circus Tent which sold above estimate for $788,000. It’s a testament to Susie’s vision that photographers such as Consuelo Kanaga and Dorothea Lange, which she championed so many years ago, were received with such enthusiasm by today’s buyers. In addition to Kanaga, the sale set records for Margaret Bourke-White and Tina Modotti, demonstrating the ever-increasing demand for high-quality, rare-to-market photographs.”
Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection
New York, 4 April 2019
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Lot |
Description |
Estimate |
Price Achieved |
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12 |
Edward Weston, Circus Tent, 1924 |
$400,000 - 600,000 |
$788,000 £592,970/€702,502 |
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8 |
Tina Modotti, Telephone Wires, Mexico, 1925 New Auction Record for the Artist |
$250,000 - 350,000 |
$692,000 £520,730/€616,918 |
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15 |
Edward Steichen, Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France, 1914 |
$400,000 - 600,000 |
$524,000 £394,310/€467,146 |
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4 |
Margaret Bourke-White, Flood Refugees, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 New Auction Record for the Artist |
$150,000 - 250,000 |
$400,000 £301,000/€356,600 |
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36 |
Imogen Cunningham, Calla, circa 1925 |
$250,000 - 350,000 |
$350,000 £263,375/€312,025 |
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23 |
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 |
$100,000 - 150,000 |
$337,500 £253,969/€300,881 |
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21 |
Edward Weston, Palm Trunk, Cuernavaca, 1925 |
$400,000 - 600,000 |
$275,000 £206,938/€245,163 |
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43 |
Edward Weston, Tina Modotti, 1921 |
$200,000 - 300,000 |
$250,000 £188,125/€222,875 |
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33 |
Tina Modotti, Roses, Mexico, 1924 |
$300,000 - 500,000 |
$220,000 £165,550/€196,130 |
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27 |
Dorothea Lange, White Angel Breadline, 1933 |
$100,000 - 150,000 |
$200,000 £150,500/€178,300 |
NEW AUCTION RECORDS
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Lot |
Description |
Estimate |
Price Achieved |
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1 |
Consuelo Kanaga, Profile of a Young Girl from the Tennessee Series, 1948 |
$15,000 - 25,000 |
$106,250 £79,953/€94,722 |
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*previous record price: $17,500 set in 2018 |
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4 |
Margaret Bourke-White, Flood Refugees, Louisville, Kentucky, 1937 |
$150,000 - 250,000 |
$400,000 £301,000/€356,600 |
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*previous record price: $352,000 set in 2006 |
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8 |
Tina Modotti, Telephone Wires, Mexico, 1925 |
$250,000 - 350,000 |
$692,000 £520,730/€616,918 |
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*previous record price: $485,000 set in 2014 |
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57 |
Dan Budnick, Selected Images of the Selma to Montgomery Marches, 1965 |
$6,000 - 8,000 |
$7,500 £5,644/€6,686 |
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*previous record price: $4,800 set in 2015 |
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Photographs
New York, 4 April 2019
TOP TEN LOTS
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Lot |
Description |
Estimate |
Price Achieved |
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85 |
Helmut Newton, Sie Kommen, Paris (Dressed and Naked), 1981 New Auction Record for the Artist |
$600,000 - 800,000 |
$1,820,000 £1,369,550/€1,622,530 |
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141 |
Robert Frank, US 285, New Mexico, 1956 |
$25,000 - 35,000 |
$187,500 £141,094/€167,156 |
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74 |
Peter Beard, Tsavo East (early '60's), (as Brör Blixen knew it in the '20's + '30's), West of Daka Dima/ near the Tiva for The End of the Game/ Last Word from Paradise, 1960 |
$150,000 - 250,000 |
$187,500 £141,094/€167,156 |
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205 |
Bernd And Hilla Becher, Water Towers, 1968-1984 |
$80,000 - 120,000 |
$162,500 £122,281/€144,869 |
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139 |
Robert Frank, Political Rally, Chicago, 1956 |
$70,000 - 90,000 |
$137,500 £103,469/€122,581 |
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154 |
Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936 |
$80,000 - 100,000 |
$118,750 £89,359/€105,866 |
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114 |
Garry Winogrand, Women are Beautiful, 1981 |
$70,000 - 90,000 |
$87,500 £65,844/€78,006 |
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84 |
Irving Penn, Kate Moss (Hand on Neck), New York, April 25, 1996 |
$60,000 - 80,000 |
$75,000 £56,438/€66,863 |
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61 |
Sally Mann, The New Mothers, 1989 |
$20,000 - 30,000 |
$62,500 £47,031/€55,719 |
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222 |
Vik Muniz, Burning Standard, after Ed Ruscha from Pictures of Cars, 2008 |
$40,000 - 60,000 |
$62,500 £47,031/€55,719 |
NEW AUCTION RECORDS
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Lot |
Description |
Estimate |
Price Achieved |
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85 |
Helmut Newton, Sie Kommen, Paris (Dressed and Naked), 1981 |
$600,000 - 800,000 |
$1,820,000 £1,369,550/€1,622,530 |
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*previous record price: £729,000 set in 2018 |
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136 |
Charles Moore, Dogs used by Birmingham, Ala. Cops to quell Negro Race Riots, 1963 |
$15,000 - 25,000 |
$62,500 £47,031/€55,719 |
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*previous record price: $11,875 set in 2011 |
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* Lots 21, 29, 33, 103, 150, 219, and 251 were sold immediately following the auction and included in the sale results.