Christie’s Unveils PHOTOGRAPHS: A Curated Sale of Masterworks and Trendy Icons

NEW YORK – Christie’s is happy to announce Photographs, an internet public sale going down from 3 –17 April, with extra than 300 partaking and important works spanning the historical past of the twentieth and twenty first century. The sale encompasses a sturdy collection of classic and modernist works from the primary half of the 20^th century alongside put up‑battle and up to date pictures by Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Helmut Newton, Andy Warhol, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sally Mann, Andreas Gursky, and plenty of others.

Rebecca Jones, Christie’s Head of Photographs, New York, feedback: “In addition to the wonderful early Modernist works we have gathered, this season we are also proud to present a significant group of Irving Penn works, with several images that have never been offered at auction before. Penn remains one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, celebrated for his striking still lifes, vivid dye‑transfer prints, iconic fashion imagery, and sensitive portraits from around the world. His market continues to show remarkable strength. By offering both his most recognizable images and rarer discoveries, we expect strong enthusiasm for this exceptional group of Penn photographs.”

The public sale is led by Irving Penn’s iconic Ginkgo Leaves, New York, 1990, a dye‑switch print estimated at $250,000–350,000. This substantial grouping of works by Penn, starting from a few of his most celebrated pictures—comparable to Girl Behind Bottle Jean Patchett, New York (estimate: $100,000–150,000)—to forcing portraits of twentieth‑century artists and cultural figures, is a uncommon likelihood to see a lot of his works directly, a number of of that are showing at public sale for the primary time.

The choice contains portraits of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, Joan Didion, and Salvador Dalí, amongst others. Works contemporary to the market embody Isamu Noguchi, New York (1947) (estimate: $8,000–12,000); Henry Moore, Much Hadham(1962) (estimate: $8,000–12,000); Jasper Johns, New York (1983) (estimate: $8,000–12,000); Willem de Kooning, Long Island, New York (1983) (estimate: $8,000–12,000); and Fernando Botero, New York (1985) (estimate: $8,000–12,000). Irving Penn stays one of the influential photographers of the twentieth century, celebrated for his hanging nonetheless lifes, richly saturated dye‑switch prints, iconic vogue imagery for Condé Nast, and delicate portraits of individuals and cultures all over the world.

Additional highlights featured within the sale embody two hanging portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz (estimates $250,000-350,000 and $60,000-80,000), a novel photogram by László Moholy‑Nagy from 1929 (estimate: $80,000–120,000), alongside essential works together with Paul Strand’s Rebecca, 1930 (estimate: $150,000–200,000), an exhilarating collection of early Sally Mann 8×10 inch contact prints, and Francesca Woodman’s House #3, Providence, Rhode Island (estimate: $40,000–60,000).