The auction house will present a stellar set of names to the public - from Brassaï to Andreas Gursky

Sally Mann
Sweet-cigarette
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Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe, 1918
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auction house Phillips de Pury & Company April 4, 2012 to hold auctions Spring Photographs, which will offer customers a number of standard photographs of famous artists.

Classic will be the work of Irving Penn (Irving Penn), among which are the highlight photo "Woman with the decoration of roses in hand, Lisa Penn-Fonsagriv" (1950) with an estimate of 200-300 thousand dollars. This image, created by the great author, has for many years filled with elegance: Penn's wife and his muse Fonsagriv Lisa (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn) in an elegant dress regal looks into the camera lens. The beauty of the model and the outfit, complete with decoration of flowers, emphasizes the technique of platinum printing, in which the picture is made.

At the auction there will be other work of Penn: "Kate Moss, holding his hand on neck, New York York, April 25, 1996, "(estimate 50-70 thousand dollars)," Confectioners, Paris "(1950) from the album" Shopkeepers "(estimate 50-70 thousand dollars)," Divination by Tarot cards "(Bridget Tichenor and Jean Petchett), New York, 1949, "(estimate 40-60 thousand dollars)," Children of Cusco, Christmas, Peru "(1948, estimate 40-60 thousand dollars)," Woman in coat Balenciaga (Lisa Fonsagriv -Penn), Paris, 1950 "(estimate 25-35 thousand dollars)," Dirty Glove "(1975, estimate 25-35 thousand dollars).

At the tender will be the work of Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) - Several portraits galeristka and actresses Holly Solomon (Holly Solomon), (1963-1964, estimate 50-70 thousand dollars).

Individuals 1950-60 - ies, the famous and not so devoted to the work of Richard Avedon (Richard Avedon) «Andy Warhol and the Factory regulars, New York, October 30, 1969," (estimate 30-50 thousand dollars), as well as two works of the revolutionary series by Robert Frank (Robert Frank) «Americans'," the New York Puerto Ricans from the Lower East Side "(c. 1954, estimate 30-50 thousand dollars), as well as the" Rodeo, Detroit "(1955, estimate 20-30 thousand dollars ).

unexpected offer images of Diane Arbus (Diane Arbus) «Triplets in the bedroom, New Jersey, 1963" (estimate 30-50 thousand dollars) and "Woman looking in mirror "Constantin Brancusi (Constantin Brancusi) (1909, estimate 15-20 thousand dollars).

Fashion photography is represented by a number of brilliant works, which include, in addition to the aforementioned photographs Penn, two legendary image of Horst P. Horst - "Corset Mainbocher», (1939, platinum print, 25-35 thousand dollars) and "Dial 1, New York, 1987," (estimate 15-20 thousand dollars), Melvin Sokolski album "Paris" , 1963, (estimate 25-35 thousand dollars), as well as the album Bert Stern (Bert Stern) with photographs of Marilyn Monroe (Marilyn Monroe), (1962, estimate 15-20 thousand dollars).

The organizers brought in the auction catalog Herb Ritts Work (Herb Ritts), Cindy Sherman (Cindy Sherman), Andreas Gursky (Andreas Gursky), Gilbert and George (Gilbert & George), Sally Mann (Sally Mann), David Lachapelle (David LaChapelle) and other well-known authors.

Immediately after the end of the auction will take place on the other fotoauktsion - "Face of Modernism," which will be sold to a private collection of rare photographs of excellent quality of the first half of XX century. The unique collection includes works by such renowned authors as Edward Steichen (Edward Steichen), Alfred Stieglitz (Alfred Stieglitz), Lewis Wickes Hine (Lewis Wickes Hine), Dorothy Lange (Dorothea Lange), André Kertész (André Kertész), Brassai (Brassaï) , Man Ray (Man Ray), and other photographers to photograph their works erected to the status of high art.

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

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