SOTHEBY’S. New York, 6 aprile 2011
La vendita ha totalizzato 5,632,187 dollari con 32 lotti invenduti su 173 offerti. Chris Mahoney,Senior Specialist, Sotheby’s Photographs Department ha dichiarato: “The wide range of photographers represented in our top-ten list says it all. To have great modernist works by Man Ray and Jaromír Funke selling at new levels alongside great 19th-century American photographers such as Mathew Brady and Timothy O’Sullivan, and contemporary artists such as Peter Beard, shows the wonderful breadth of today’s photographs market. Our total of $5.6 million, well over our high estimate of $4.3 million, shows the strength and resilience of the market for important photographs.”
TOP TEN
Lotto 92
$410,500 (£251,070)
$100,000 – 150,000
Man Ray,
Untitled (Photomontage with Nude and Studio Lamp), 1933
Lotto 96
$350,500 (£214,373)
$50,000 – 70,000
Jaromír Funke, Composition (from Abstraktní Foto ), 1929
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 41
$338,500 (£207,034)
$30,000 – 50,000
Mathew B. Brady, John C. Calhoun, 1849
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 145
$326,500 (£199,694)
$120,000 – 180,000
Peter Beard, ‘Maureen Gallagher and a Night Feeder at Hog Ranch,’ 1987
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 111
$314,500 (£192,355)
$150,000 – 250,000
Richard Avedon, Avedon/Paris, portfolio of 11 photographs with 2 extra prints, 1948-57
Lotto 13
$182,500 (£111,621)
$100,000 – 150,000
Ansel Adams, Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944
Lotto 20
$158,500 (£96,942)
$70,000 – 100,000
Edward Weston, ‘Dunes, Oceano,’ 1936
Lotto 167
$134,500 (£82,263)
$50,000 – 70,000
Richard Prince, ‘#14 Untitled (Cowboy Watering Horses),’ 1983
Lotto 42
$134,500 (£82,263)
$15,000 – 25,000
Timothy O’Sullivan, ‘Ancient Ruins in the Cañon de Chelle, N.M.,’ 1873
***RECORD FOR THE ARTIST AT AUCTION***
Lotto 92A
$122,500 (£74,924)
$70,000 – 100,000
Man Ray, Solarized Male Torso, 1936
