Phillips Announces
Highlights from May
Photographs Auction
To
be Offered in London on 16 May 2019
LONDON
– 29 APRIL 2019 – Phillips is pleased
to present Photographs in London, an
auction of 162 lots taking place on 16 May at 2pm BST. Available
for sale only at Phillips is ULTIMATE, a multifaceted selection of exclusive
works ranging from rare masterpieces to unique works and sold-out editions.
This Spring, Photographs will also
feature ULTIMATE EDITORIAL, celebrating collaborative
creativity in ten captivating photographs by today’s leading and emerging
forces in fashion, from legendary photographer Steven Meisel to rising star
Txema Yeste. The Photographs
sale showcases the work of Man Ray,
Witkacy, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn and Gregory Crewdson, among others.
Genevieve Janvrin & Yuka
Yamaji, Co-Heads of Photographs, Europe,
said, “This season we are incredibly excited to be offering so many fresh-to
market works with ULTIMATE, including our cover lot by Anne Collier, Helena
Almeida’s unique work Seduzir, and
two rare vintage prints from Ishiuchi Miyako’s Yokosuka Story. We are
also thrilled to present ULTIMATE EDITORIAL, a carefully curated
selection of photographs which truly captures the diversity and creativity in
fashion photography today. The extraordinary calibre of photographs featured in
this curation is a testament to the power of collaborative creativity.”
ULTIMATE
Leading ULTIMATE is Helena Almeida’s unique Seduzir [Seduce], 2002, hailing from a
body of work Almeida created between 2000 and 2002 (estimate: £50,000-70,000, illustrated page one). For her
painstakingly detailed creative process, Almeida begins with preparatory
drawings of choreography that she faithfully follows in the studio. She then
films herself, observing how her body moves and explores the space. Once
perfected, her private performance is photographed by her husband Arthur Rosa.
Anne
Collier photographs found objects and appropriated imagery, exemplified by Folded Madonna Poster (Steven Meisel),
2007 in this sale; a once-folded poster
of Madonna from a photograph taken by Steven Meisel for her 1993 single ‘Bad
Girl’ (estimate: £20,000-30,000, illustrated
right). Influenced by the work of Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and other ‘Pictures
Generation’ artists, Collier re-contextualises popular imagery and visual
clichés. She challenges how photography structures our ways of seeing by
drawing our attention to these mechanics, as seen in the present work.
ULTIMATE also offers fresh works by eight artists debuting at
auction, including Andrew Zuckerman’s hyperreal portrait of a grizzly bear
standing nearly three metres tall, Yuji Hamada’s study of the Rubik’s Cube
through the Polaroid emulsion-lift technique, and Jinhee Kim’s hand-embroidered
Labor of Love diptych.
ULTIMATE EDITORIAL
The
ten captivating images in ULTIMATE EDITORIAL were created for editorial since
2011, and appeared originally in magazines such as Vogue, LOVE and Numéro. All ten works have been released
exclusively for ULTIMATE EDITORIAL and are either completely unique or from an
edition of one in a unique size. The subjects in these photographs, including
considerable star power from Naomi Campbell and Guinevere van Seenus to Cara Delevingne
and Liu Wen, have forged strong relationships with the artists that continue to
this day. As seen here, these collaborations have produced defining images that
reflect and inform our society and visual culture.
Leading
ULTIMATE EDITORIAL is Steven Meisel’s Naomi
Campbell, New York City, 2019, the very image featured on the March 2019
cover of British Vogue. The work
captures the creative collaboration between two legends of fashion – image-maker
Steven Meisel and supermodel Naomi Campbell – who have defined key moments in
our social history and visual culture for over 30 years. Here, through multiple
exposure and deliberate blurring, Meisel has created a surreal composition.
PHOTOGRAPHS
The Photographs sale celebrates the legacy
of Man Ray with La Prière, a desirable work
from 1930. The model pictured is Lee Miller who not only
posed for Man Ray during their short-lived, tumultuous relationship, but also collaborated
with him to choreograph iconic images such as La Prière. By the 1930s, nudes comprised an important portion of
Man Ray’s oeuvre, and La Prière
is one of a select number of early works that he revisited, producing small
editions as both gelatin silver prints and gelatin silver emulsion on linen.
The work offered here was acquired in 1982 from Italian art historian and
curator Arturo Schwarz and has been in the same collection for over 35 years.
Widely respected as a leading authority on Surrealism and Dadaism, Schwarz
championed Man Ray and exhibited his work at his influential Milan gallery
Galleria Schwarz, which he operated from 1954 to 1975. This work is number six
from the edition of seven that Man Ray printed on linen and is one of the few
images he is known to have created in this way.
The
sale offers further exceptional works by Annie Leibovitz, Richard Mosse, and
Thomas Ruff, among others.
Phillips
looks forward to the sale of Artist
| Icon | Inspiration: Women in Photography, an auction on 7 June in New York, presented with
gallerist and collector Peter Fetterman that will explore the role of women as
artists, subjects, and innovators.
Auction: Thursday,
16 May 2019, 2pm
Auction viewing: 10 – 16 May
Location: 30
Berkeley Square, London
Click here
for more information.
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