London Photographs Auction
Interwar European and Latin American Photographs and a
Contemporary-Focused ULTIMATE to Lead the Sale on 25 October
LONDON
- 7 OCTOBER 2019 – Phillips is pleased to announce highlights from the upcoming
Photographs auction, taking place on Friday 25 October in London. Comprising
120 lots, the sale offers early prints from interwar Europe by Constantin
Brancusi, Man Ray and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and classic 20th century images by
Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Robert Mapplethorpe, alongside fresh-to-market
photographs from Latin America and a contemporary-focused edition of ULTIMATE
with exclusive works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Peter Beard, Idris Khan and Pieter
Hugo, among others. New artists to Phillips this
season include Susana Torres, Amanda Means, Bastiaan
Woudt and Natalia LL.
Genevieve Janvrin
& Yuka Yamaji, Co-Heads of Photographs, Europe, said, “We are excited
to present the 11th edition of ULTIMATE
this autumn. The nine
carefully selected works are either unique
or sold out and available for sale only at Phillips, including our cover
lot by Wolfgang Tillmans and back-cover lot by Amanda Means. In
response to mounting interest in Latin American photography, we are thrilled to
welcome back LATIN AMERICA with the fourth edition. Featuring 13 artists, nine
of which were exhibited in the recent show Urban
Impulses: Latin American Photography From 1959-2016 at The Photographers’
Gallery in London, this offering provides collectors the opportunity to acquire
works that are being presented at auction for the first time.”
In this editon
of ULTIMATE, Wolfgang
Tillmans’ introspective image of ripened apples taken outside his flat in
London, Idris Khan’s 2004 homage to the Bechers’ typologies, Peter Beard’s
haunting aerial view of 756 elephants migrating and Pieter Hugo’s powerful
photograph taken in Cape Town’s Green Point are four masterworks that are
emblematic of each artist’s social and cultural concerns as well as aesthetic
sensibilities. Pieter Hugo: In
Conversation, which explores his featured work, is published on Phillips.com.
Debuting at Phillips is Bastiaan Woudt with his 2017 portrait, thula, Alkmaar, and Amanda Means with
her unique colour Polaroid of an incandescent light bulb. Each work showcased
in this selection is distinctive; the one thing they all have in common is that
they are not available anywhere else.
The
selection of interwar European photographs includes rare works by Constantin
Brancusi, Hans Bellmer, Maurice Tabard and Henri Cartier-Bresson, among others.
A highlight is Man Ray’s portrait of artist Meret Oppenheim created in 1935. Through cropping and re-orientation, Man Ray
transformed the image of Oppenheim lying on the floor of his studio into a
surreal photograph in which her necklace floats around her throat and her hair
defies gravity. Man Ray was introduced to the German-born Oppenheim in Paris by
their mutual friend Alberto Giacometti in the early 1930s. Oppenheim posed
repeatedly for Man Ray, resulting in some of his best-known photographs from
that decade.
LATIN
AMERICA highlights include Adelante,
Graciela Sacco’s last ever Cuerpo a
cuerpo installation, a unique triptych by Fernell Franco and an oversized pigment
print of Marcelo Montecino’s Managua,
the iconic image that graced the cover of the catalogue to the 2014 exhibition América Latina 1960-2013 at Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.
Further
highlights include Richard Avedon’s 1979 portrait of Francis Bacon as well as Property
from a Private European Collector, featuring Thomas Struth’s Museo del Prado 3, Madrid taken in 2005,
and Thomas Ruff’s jpeg pp02 from
2004.
Auction: 25
October 2019
Auction viewing: 22-25 October
Location: 30
Berkeley Square, London
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here
for more information
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