Vendredi 20 Novembre 2015 10:57:34 par Alix Chambaud dans Ventes

On Wednesday, November 25, more than 200 works of modern and contemporary photography will be sold in Grisebach’s Photography auction.

© László Moholy-Nagy, Untitled (positive photogram), Dessau. 1925.

The sale’s leading lot is a positive photogram, created in 1925, by Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Moholy-Nagy, who focused at that time on his "cameraless photography," would soon refer to the resulting experimental works as "photograms." In order to create a positive photogram, a mirrored copy of an original photogram, the original is used as a negative, copied by means of direct contact onto un-exposed paper. This produces an image of the same size, yet the tonal values and the forms are inverted. The result is a black figure on light ground. The present vintage was formerly owned by photographer William G. Larson who studied at the Chicago Institute of Design, founded in 1939 as the School of Design by Moholy-Nagy. It is unusually well reserved (EUR 80,000/120,000).

© Hans Bellmer, Book: La Poupée. 1936.

Hans Bellmer’s 1936 booklet "La Poupée" can be considered as an introduction to Surrealist photography. In a series of 10 photographs a puppet, the artist’s own almost life-size creation, is staged in different, sometimes disturbing ways (EUR 35,000/45,000).
Auction No. 248 | November 25, 2015 | 5.30 p.m.



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