Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits Sale
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From June 15-25 artnet Auctions will feature Icons: 20th-21st Century Photographic Portraits, a special sale of 250 original fine art photographs of legendary figures including The Beatles, Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali and Kate Moss.
Leading the sale is an exceptional group of fifteen photographs of screen stars Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Marilyn Monroe from the 1950s-1960s. Highlights include a rare photograph of Audrey Hepburn taken at the pinnacle of her career in 1956 by Yousuf Karsh (estimate: $15,000-$20,000); two luminous portraits of Grace Kelly taken in 1955 by fashion photographer Howell Conant (estimates: $3,000-$3,500 each) and a group of ten photographs of Marilyn Monroe by George Barris, Elliott Erwitt and Bert Stern.
The sale celebrates music legends including Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Kurt Cobain, Bob Dylan, Madonna and Jim Morrison. These remarkable photographs include a rare nude portrait of Madonna taken by Lee Friedlander in 1979 (estimate: $25,000-$35,000) and a stunning portrait of the late Kurt Cobain taken by Mark Seliger in 1993 (estimate: $2,500-$3,500)
Among the other highlights are fashion photographs from the 1930s to the present. Leading this group is a collection of 20 rare vintage portraits by Louise Dahl-Wolfe from the 1930s to 1950s including photographs of Lauren Bacall, Josephine Baker, and Spencer Tracy (estimates: $1,000-$3,000 each). Also featured in this section are contemporary fashion photographs by Steven Meisel, Sante D'Orazio and Albert Watson.
Rounding out the sale is a group of thirty photographs of legendary athletes, artists and literary figures. Sports legends featured in the sale include Bobby Jones, Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali. Also offered in the sale are photographs of renowned artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol and literary figures including Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, and Jack Kerouac.
Bloomsbury Auctions, London is delighted to announce its May 22nd Photographs and Photobooks sale. It will encompass a range of photographs dating from the 1850s to the present day. 
Nineteenth century highlights from the auction include a group of eight rare and early salt prints (from albumen on glass negatives) of Rome by Eugène Constant
Amongst the highlights of the “Photography” Auction can be counted a number of August Sander’s most important landscape photographs, including his shot of the Rhine river at Boppard from 1938 (lot 27, 8.000 €) as well as another from 1941 where the photographer captures a romantic rear view high over the Rhine ...
Un nouveau record ! Un appareil photographique de la marque allemande Leica, datant de 1923, a été vendu 2,16 millions d'euros, samedi 12 mai, lors d'une vente aux enchères organisée par la Galerie Westlicht à Vienne (Autriche).
Christie’s Photographs sale on Wednesday 16 May features over 100 works with estimates ranging from £3,000 to £120,000.
The sale brings the story of photography closer to the present with some of the most recognisable contemporary practitioners: a diptych by Andreas Gursky, who currently holds the...
Bonhams’ next sale of Photographs in London takes place on Thursday 17th May at 2pm. The sale will feature fine photographs and photobooks from the history of the medium, from the 19th Century to the present day.
Highlights of the sale include John Jabez Edwin Mayall’s exquisite daguerreotype portrait of Charles...
Du 18 au 29 mai à l'hôtel de Sauroy, Stéphane Brasca, directeur de la rédaction du magazine de l'air, organise Collection 02, une exposition-vente de photographies qui réunit huit artistes autour du nu et du paysage.
Les photographies de Chine, d'Indochine, d'Afrique, d'Océanie, du Japon, d'Amériques, d'aviation et nus sont visibles le lundi 23 avril de 11h à 18h et le mardi 24 avril de 11h à 12h en salle 9 de l'Hôtel Drouot.
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