Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Ventes

On Friday May 26, Villa Grisebach will begin their spring auctions with Modern and Contemporary photographs: Featured in the sale are two Polaroid prints from the 70s by Walker Evans (€ 4,000 - 6,000 and € 5,000 - 7,000) showing the photographer's specific view on everyday life and his striking revolutionary color aesthetic. Classic masterpieces on offer are the impressive vintage print by Lewis Hine that documents the construction of the Empire State Building 1930-31 (€ 12,000 - 15,000) and the iconic portrait of Che Guevera from 1963 - an original proof by René Burri (€ 8,000 - 10,000). Furthermore, the sale includes major proponents of Modern Photography like Diane Arbus, Henri Cartier-Bresson, the brothers Andreas Feininger and T. Lux Feininger, Dorothea Lange, Dora Maar, and Paul Strand. An extra section of the catalog contains Contemporary works by worldwide renown photographers, among others Anna and Bernhard Blume ("Küchenkoller," 1985-86, € 4,000 - 6,000), Andreas Gursky (from the series "Verkäuferinnen", 1983, € 3,000 - 5,000), Candida Höfer ("Abteiberg Vaals II," 1993, € 2,500 - 3,500), Sarah Moon (Issey Miyake, 1992, € 2,000 - 3,000), Shirin Neshat ("I am its Secret," 1993, € 4,000 - 6,000), Bettina Rheims ("Madonna lying on the Floor of a Red Room I. September 1994, New York," € 8,000 - 12,000), and Thomas Struth ("Fischersand, Erfurth," € 5,000 - 7,000).