Photo of Edward Weston's sold for a million dollars
The results of the auction, Sotheby's photography
Tuesday, April 13 in New York held an auction Sotheby's, dedicated to photography. Trades brought 5 million dollars in Estima 3,4-5,1 million. Remained unsold at least 20 percent of works. The bulk of the lots were creations of classic photographs, but were the work of contemporary artists: Thomas Ruff (Thomas Ruff), Joel-Peter Witkin (Joel-Peter Witkin), Shirin Neshat (Shirin Neshat).
Top lot was the" Nautilus "(1927) Edward Weston (Edward Weston), gained over 1.08 million dollars in the evaluation 300-500 thousand. Sotheby's was the first auction house, through which was carried out more than five million transactions with classic images.
The current auction record for creativity Weston is 1,6 million dollars. So much has brought "Nude" (1925), sold at Sotheby's April 7, 2008. In second place - another mark "Nautilus", who left in 2007 (again at Sotheby's) for 1,1 million.
Another outstanding result - 290.5 thousand dollars " Photogram "authorship of the famous avant-garde Hungarian Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (László Moholy-Nagy). Estimeyt work, created in early 1920, amounted to 200-300 thousand.
next major auction of Sotheby's photography will be held June 21-22. Customers will be offered from the collection of images bankrupt company Polaroid. More information about the collection of Polaroid can be read here .
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