eNews   Artists Exhibitions  Events   Institutions   edit myPN         Joel Sternfeld, McLean, Virginia, December 4, 1978 Dye transfer print, printed 1986. 38.3 x 49.6 cm (41.7 x 53.7 cm) Estimate € 14,000     Kunsthaus Lempertz – Photography   Auction 1012: Photography Friday, 24 May 2013, 2pm Auction 1016: Contemporary Art + Photography Friday, 24 May 2013, 6pm   Opening: Thu 16 May 6pm Preview: Fri 17 May 10am-5.30pm | Sat 18 May 10am-4pm | Whitsun closed | Tue 21 May - Thu 23 May 10am-5.30pm For further information please contact our experts:     Maren Klinge Tel: +49-(0)221-92 57 29 28 Christine Nielsen Tel: +49-(0)221-92 57 29 56 photo@lempertz.com Kunsthaus Lempertz Neumarkt 3, D-50667 Cologne www.lempertz.com       László Moholy-Nagy, Portrait Ellen Frank, c. 1929 Vintage gelatin silver print. 27.8 x 19.5 cm (29.9 x 23 cm) Estimate € 20,000 – 25,000     The auction comprises some 200 works, appealing, as always, to a broad range of collectors in the areas of historical, classical and contemporary photography. The highlights of the 19th-century section include an album entitled "Italy 1869", partly with large-format and extremely well preserved albumin copies by James Anderson, the Aliniari Brothers and D’Alessandri as well as several other photographers who captured Italian towns, landscapes and antique monuments in the 1850s and 1860s (Lot 3, € 6-8,000). Roger Fenton photographed Trafalgar Square in London in the 1850s ("Trafalgar Square", Lot 2, € 4,000). Heinrich Kühn, the most celebrated protagonist of pictoralism, will be represented, among other things, with his portrait "Mrs Richter", showing the subject in an uncommonly confident and flirtatious pose (Lot 10, € 5/6,000). The photograph of the Dadaist Kurt Schwitters with his MERZplastik sculpture "Die heilige Bekümmernis" was taken by an anonymous photographer (Lot 15, € 5-6,000). Using his characteristic sense of humour, Schwitters had "confirmed" in his own hand on a strip of cardboard fixed to the side of the photograph that the depicted person was in fact himself. One of the most outstanding works of classical photography is László Moholy-Nagy’s "Portrait Ellen Frank", an experimental close-up, taken around 1929. At the time Ellen Frank was the partner of this Bauhaus master. (Lot 22, € 20-25,000). The photograph – available here as a vintage print – has an amazing immediacy and a certain cinematic look-and-feel about it, exemplifying the New Vision which was propagated by Moholy-Nagy in so many ways. Moholy-Nagy had adopted an experimental approach which came to characterise all Bauhaus photography in Dessau. This method can also be seen in a photograph by Heinz Loew, in which he shows his fellow-student Edmund Collein, a member of the legendary Bauhaus band, whom he had merged programmatically with a gramophone (Lot 21, € 4-5,000). German post-war photography is represented, among others, by the "Fotoform" group. The works auctioned here include photographs by Otto Steinert, Toni Schneiders, Peter Keetman, Ludwig Windstosser and Siegfried Lauterwasser (Lots 64-72, € 900-1,800). There is also a captivating photograph by Herbert List, showing St Peter’s Square in Rome from a bird’s eye view.       Henri Cartier-Bresson, Kartonfertigung für den Versand des Ararat-Likörs, Eriwan, Armenien, c. 1973 Gelatin silver print. 16.6 x 25 cm (18.6 x 27 cm) Estimate € 3,000     Henri Cartier-Bresson photographed a group of young working women in Armenia in the 1970s as well as soldiers on Red Square in Moscow (Lots 107 and 108, each € 3,000). Both photographs share the same characteristic style, resulting from interaction between formal composition and situational, narrative content. Another highlight of the auction is a large collection of 36 subjects from the series "Magic of the Rails" by the Swiss photographer René Groebli (Lot 79, € 9-12,000).       Helmut Newton, Jenny in my Studio, 1978 Gelatin silver print, printed 1981. 46.7 x 30.7 cm (51.5 x 40.5 cm) Estimate € 12,000 – 15,000     Connoisseurs of nude photography will be interested in works such as Helmut Newton’s "Jenny in my Studio" (Lot 123, € 12-15,000), Ruth Bernhard’s "Crossover" (Lot 88, € 5-6,000) and Edward Weston’s "Nude on Sand, Oceano" (Lot 49, € 4,000), while collectors of fashion photography will appreciate the works by F.C. Gundlach (Lots 113, 114, € 1,800 each) and Horst P. Horst (Lot 52, € 6-8,000). "Daryl Hannah" posed lasciviously on an elephant for Michel Comte (Lot 154, € 3,500), and Fergus Greer captured his model "Leigh Bowery" in his usual bizarre style (Lot 153, € 4-5,000).       Joint Army Task Force One Photo, The Test Baker Column, 1946 Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print. 19.5 x 24 cm (20.7 x 25.3 cm) Estimate € 1,000     A separate section of the auction will focus on an important collection of vintage photographs, taken in 1946 at Operation Crossroads on the Bikini Atoll. In the summer of that year the United States conducted two nuclear tests within a few weeks, arousing major interest among the media. The photographs of these gigantic nuclear mushrooms shooting up into the sky fascinate the viewer with their visual immediacy while at the same time documenting the beginning of the Cold War. They are now among the key images of the 20th century. The photographs auctioned in the "Contemporary Art" sale on 24 May will include several works by followers of the Becher School, e.g. a large-format portrait of Thomas Ruff (Lot 560, € 20-25,000), a landscape by Elger Esser (Lot 448, € 14,000) and "Roller Coaster" by Boris Becker (Lot 419, € 5-6,000). This section also includes four street scenes in Tokyo, Palermo and Geneva, taken by Thomas Struth (Lots 569-572, € 5-6,000 each). A masterpiece of American New Color Photography will be on offer in the form of Joel Sternfeld’s charming and at the same time irritating "McLean, Virginia, December 4, 1978" (Lot 568, € 14,000). The carefully illuminated street scene "Tokyo" (Lot 442, € 9-12,000) by Philip-Lorca diCorcia is reminiscent of a film still.     Newsletter was sent to @absolutearts.com © 13 May 2013 photography-now.com Ziegelstr. 29 . D–10117 Berlin Editor: Claudia Stein & Michael Steinke contact@photography-now.com T +49.30.24 34 27 80