On November 7th, Maison Millon is presenting an excellent photography auction. From primitive photography to photography with more humanistic trends through modernism or the avant-garde, 190 lots retracing the 8th Art’s history are available at the auction. A chapter is dedicated to the collection of Catherine and Jacques Bergaud, photographer and founder of the famous and glamorous Studio Pin-Up. Among the fifty prints that make up the collection, a group of works by Peter Lindbergh, whose lens immortalized the most beautiful women in the world, will be available at the auction. Eleven vintage and promotional film prints, most of them signed by the artist, will parade past Maître Millon’s gavel (estimate: from 3,000 to 20,000 euros). “His name was Jacques Bergaud and he was one of the most flamboyant characters I knew,” explains Jean-Jacques Naudet, founder of The Eye of Photography. “Provocative, fun, insufferable, cultivated, he had one passion: photography. He thought he was a bad photographer, so, for others, he opened up Studio Pin-Up in 1976, a studio that would remain mythic for twenty years. I remember a dinner at home in Paris in the 1980s. Jacques explained to Estelle Lefebure, then a major model, that she was much easier to seduce than the cashier at Prisunic. Estelle burst out in laughter but her partner was livid! Like the journalist Jean Dominique Bauby, he was the victim of locked-in syndrome. Jeanloup Sieff, friends of both, took their portraits. They both died within a few weeks of each other in 2000. His collection of photographs that he created with his wife Catherine is for sale. It’s a collection of fifty little masterpieces.”
Studio Pin-Up, les plus belles femmes du monde se donnent rendez-vous chez Millon
Auction
Tuesday November 7, 2017 at 2:30 p.m.
Room V.V
3 rue Rossini
75009 Paris
France
Complete catalogue :
http://www.millon.com/html/index.jsp?id=86519&lng=fr&npp=150
