| | | | Lot 55 Sasha Stone Tilla Durieux with two Siamese cats, 1920s Vintage gelatin silver print 28.3 x 20.8 cm Estimate: EUR 1,500 to EUR 2,000 | | | Photography | | | | Online Auction: Friday 28 October, 2022, 3pm Preview by appointment Catalogue: here | |
| | | | | | | | | | Lot 98 Henri Cartier-Bresson Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Mexico 1934 Gelatin silver print c. 1947 23.5 x 34.7 cm (27 x 35.8 cm) Estimate: EUR 5,000 to EUR 7,000 | | | | The offer in the Dorotheum's auction ranges from early Austrian photography from the 1850s to pictorialism, Viennese studios of the 1930s, photographs from the environment of the Dadaists, reportage, actionism and contemporary photography. Tilla Durieux (born Ottilie Godefroy, Vienna 1880-1971 Berlin) was a famous actress, a politically engaged figure, and is regarded as the most portrayed woman of her era. A photograph shows Auguste Renoir in front of Durieux’s portrait, which he executed in 1914 at the behest of her second husband, the famous art dealer Paul Cassirer. | | | | | | Lot 138 Christian Skrein Attersee with rhesus monkey, 1968 Vintage gelatin silver print 30.5 x 24 cm Estimate: EUR 1,300 to EUR 2,000 | | | | Four photographs offered in the auction were taken in 1927 in the course of a reportage entitled "My Zoo", which shows Tilla Durieux in the company of her animals in her apartment on Kaiserin-Augusta Strasse in Berlin. Three more photographs of her animals and the "Fischzimmer" with a collection of African wood figures complete the zoo. All the photos of the actress were produced by Atelier Stone, which was located only a few houses away from Durieux’s apartment. Sasha Stone (born Aleksander Serge Steinsapir, St. Petersburg 1895-1940 Perpignan) ran his highly successful studio for reportage and advertising photography together with his wife, Cami Stone. He was a dazzling character and a globetrotter, who lived in Warsaw, New York and Paris before settling in Berlin and at last moving to Brussels. Originally trained as an electrician, he worked both in Thomas Edison’s laboratories and for the sculptor Hunt Diederich. During World War I, he joined the American army. After returning to Europe, he studied drawing, painting and sculpture in Paris. | | | | | | Lot 11 Constantin von Ettingshausen/Alois Pokorny "Physiotypia Plantarum Austriacarum. Die Gefässpflanzen Österreichs in Naturselbstdruck, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Nervation in den Flächenorganen der Pflanzen." 5 volumes with 100 plates each (8 plates missing) first edition, K.-K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1856 Extremely rare first edition Estimate: EUR 15,000 to EUR 18,000 | | | | A special highlight of the auction, which includes examples ranging from early travel photography to contemporary works, is an extremely rare first edition. It illustrates the most prominent Austrian nature print project, the "Physiotypia Plantarum Austriacarum", a collection of plants compiled by Constantin von Ettingshausen and Alois Pokorny, first presented in 1855. Ettingshausen was a professor of botany and natural history in Vienna from 1854 and used nature printing to illustrate his publications. This technique combined science and aesthetics and was intended to convey the innovative potential of the K.K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (the Imperial & Royal State Printing Office). | | | | | | Lot 54 Auguste Renoir/Tilla Durieux Auguste Renoir in front of the portrait of Tilla Durieux, 1914, vintage gelatin silver print Auguste Renoir, 1914, Photogravure, 22.8 x 17.2 cm on contemporary cardboard, and 26.7 x 20.8 cm (32 x 24.8 cm), enclosed typoscript of the chapter "Paris 1914" from Tilla Durieux’ autobiography "Eine Tür steht offen" Estimate: EUR 2,500 to EUR 2,800 | | | | unsubscribe here Newsletter was sent to newsletter@newslettercollector.com © 10 Oct 2022 photo-index UG (haftungsbeschränkt) Ziegelstr. 29 . D–10117 Berlin Editor: Claudia Stein & Michael Steinke contact@photo-index.art . T +49.30.24 34 27 80 | |
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