October 10th will be the last day to bid on the online sale Christie’s Photographs which proposes 209 lots. The sale spans the history of the medium, featuring highlights such as rare vintage prints by Edward Weston, Tina Modotti and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, post-war photographs by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Gordon Parks, and contemporary highlights by Nan Goldin, Richard Misrach, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Wolfgang Tillmans, and many more.
A leading highlight of the sale is a group of Ansel Adams Photographs from an Important Asian Collection. The top lot is an exquisite 20th Century mural print of Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 7958 (estimate:
$300,000-500,000). Other notable lots include Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California, 7938 (estimate: $60,000-80,000), Ice on Tioga Lake, Yosemite National Park, 7965 (estimate: $30,000- 50,000), and Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Monument, California, c.1948 (estimate: $20,000-30,000).
Additional highlights come from Photographs from the Kayafas Collection, a collection from Gus and Arlette Kayafas, the founder of Palm Press, and from TIME OUT Antiques: The Norman Mintz Collection. The Kayafas Collection features photographs ranging from the 19th century through to contemporary works by Abelardo Morrell and represents a variety of photographic processes such as albumen; Woodburytype; salt prints; dye transfer; and more. The Norman Mintz Collection includes over 20 historically significant and fresh to market daguerreotypes.
Further highlights include iconic portraits by Richard Avedon such as Francis Bacon, Painter, Paris, France, April 77, 7979 (estimate: $80,000- 120,000) and Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York, 7957 (estimate: $70,000-90,000), and works by female photographers such as Tina Modotti’s Glasses, 7924 (estimate: $50,000-70,000) and Francesca Woodman’s Untitled, New York, 7979-80 (estimate: $20,000-30,000).
Sale details
Photographs
Until October 10 OCT 11AM EDT | ONLINE
https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/photographs/lots/3757
Viewing Times – New York
Oct 8 – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Oct 9 – 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Christie’s New York
20 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10020
https://www.christies.com/
