| | | |  | | | Auction 1222/lot 716
Peter Lindbergh
Milla Jovovich, Karen Elson, Los Angeles (Vogue Italy), 2000
Chromogenic print
114 x 174.5 cm (124 x 184.5 cm frame)
From an edition of 3
Estimate € 10,000 – 15,000 | | | Lempertz – Photography | | | | | | | Further information:
Dr. Christine Nielsen
Tel: +49-(0)221-92 57 29-56
photo@lempertz.com | | |  | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Auction 1222/lot 572
Willi Ruge
This Moment was decisive, 1931
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
13.9 x 20.2 cm (16.3 x 21.6 cm)
Estimate € 6,000 – 8,000 | | | | | | Auction 1222 Classical Photography
This year’s season highlight in the field of photography is a small photo book from 1934 which will go under the hammer in the Evening Sale: ‘Die Puppe. Erinnerungen zum Thema Puppe’ by Hans Bellmer is from a small edition which Bellmer published himself and in which he revealed his work on the scandalous subject of the doll for the first time. This launched his entry onto the Parisian Surrealist scene where his photographs caused a sensation (lot 85, € 30/40,000). Well preserved examples of the book, which includes a text and ten gelatin silver prints from the photographer, are exceptionally seldom.
A self-portrait by Willi Ruge as a press print from his reportage "I Photograph Myself During a Parachute Jump" shows the decisive moment in which the parachute opens up over the photographer’s head (lot 529, € 6/8,000). The photographs of the daring photographer’s daredevil self-experiments, for which he also composed the accompanying humorous texts, went around the world as picture reports in numerous illustrated magazines in the 1930s. | | | | | |  | | | Auction 1222/lot 610
Otto Steinert
Die Bäume vor meinem Fenster II, 1956
Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print
48.7 x 60.8 cm
Estimate € 10,000 – 15,000 | | | | | | | Standing out amongst the classical photography is a large-format vintage print of the well-known second variation from "Die Bäume vor meinem Fenster" [The Trees in Front of My Window] by Otto Steinert, a masterpiece of subjective photography from the co-founder of the fotoform group (lot 610, € 10/15,000). In the 1950s and 60s, Steinert influenced a string of German photographers and photo journalists as a teacher initially in Saarbrücken and later at the Folkwang School of Design in Essen. Amongst them were Detlef Orlopp, Peter Thomann, Adolf Clemens and Günter Hildenhagen, from whom several prints are offered in this auction (various lots, € 6/800 - € 1/1,500). | | | | | |  | | | Auction 1222/lot 642
Robert Mapplethorpe
Irises, 1986
Gelatin silver print
48.6 x 48.8 cm (60.3 x 50.6 cm)
From an edition of 10
Estimate € 13,000 – 15,000 | | | | | | Recent American photography is on display in this auction in all its diversity and breadth: For friends of exquisite black and white photography, for example, the auction offers a gelatin silver print of a classically elegant flower still life, "Irises", by Robert Mapplethorpe (lot 642, € 13/15,000). Press photographer Steve McCurry’s iconic "Afghan Girl" – the portrait of the 12-year-old Sharbat Gula on her flight in a camp in Pakistan – is present as a brilliant cibachrome print (lot 690, € 12/15,000). A thematic contrast takes the form of Peter Lindbergh’s large-format chromogenic print "Milla Jovovich, Karen Elson, Los Angeles", which depicts the glamourous nightlife of West Coast High Society in a shot for Vogue Italy (lot 716, € 10/15,000).
Three lithprints by the Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn from the 1990s capture music icons Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones), Bono (U2) and Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) in expressively powerful portraits (lots 710-712, each € 6/8,000), whilst a star from the music branch himself – the Canadian rock musician/photographer Bryan Adams – offers two large-format portraits of Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham, taken in the early 2000s (lots 718/719, each € 5/6,000). | | | | | |  | | | Auction 1223/lot 73
Thomas Demand
Fotoecke/Photobooth, 2009
Chromogenic print on aluminium composite panel, face mounted to plexiglass
179.5 x 197.7 cm
From an edition of 6 (+ 2 A.P.)
Estimate € 30,000 – 40,000 | | | Auctions 1223/1224 Contemporary Art
This year’s selection of photographic lots in the field of contemporary art is particularly extensive, offered in the Evening Sale – directly after the Photography Auction – as well as in the Day Sale the following day. Thomas Demand’s photograph "Fotoecke/Photobooth" is one of the highlights assembled in the Evening Sale (lot 76, € 30/40,000), and shows a meticulous paper reconstruction of a room in the former GDR detention centre. The motif is based on a press photo from a "Spiegel" article which inspired Demand’s artistic exploration of the subject.
Impressive photographs come in the form of the large "Menschenbild" from the Prosecuritas cycle by Jürgen Klauke (lot 377, € 10/15,000) with an excellent exhibition provenance, as well as two works by the artist couple Anna and Johannes Blume from their famous series "Im Wald" (lots 374/375, € 4/5,000 and € 6/8,000). The offering is rounded off by many works – some large-format – from the Düsseldorf School, including examples by Axel Hütte (lot 459, € 12/15,000) and Andreas Gefeller (lots 465/466, each € 10/15,000). | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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