On April 10, Sotheby’s announced the results of the auction of Leland Hirsch’s photographs collection. Creator of Celeb Luxury, a laboratory and hair dye brand, Leland Hirsch built over nearly twenty years his collection mad of works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Mann Ray, Herb Ritts and Peter Beard. The sale of the collection raised more than $ 2 million of dollars.
Among the works sold by the collector were Stephanie, Cindy, Christy, Tajana, Naomi and Holliwood of Herb Ritts (1989) sold for 150 000 dollars, Lisa Marie of Robert Mapplethorpe (1987) sold for 68 000 dollars or Man Lighting Girl’s Cigarette (1949, New York), sold for $ 125,000.
