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One of the many public service announcements brought to by the
friendly folks
at Seewald's art gallery. Don't forget to help an artist out with a
small, or large donation: donation f o r m.
Photographic Auction Action.
From most recent to older results.
Top 10 highest selling image list near bottom.
As of
July there has been no significant auction action that we have read about; we
will keep folks informed as soon as we see anything.
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Edward Weston,
$1,609,000.00
This 1925 nude – Won by Peter MacGill of the Pace-MacGill
Gallery.
The most a Weston has ever sold for, to date, April of 2008- Sotheby’s auction.
This Bert Stern image
"The Last Sitting", one of the last pictures
of Monroe before her death ,
sold for
$146,500.00
shattering the $63,000 mark set in 1994.
Marilyn Monroe: Photo auction sets record in New York
An old photograph of Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern and a photograph by Helmut
Newton of four women naked and then dressed sold for record prices on
Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.
The Newton photo "Sie Kommen, (Naked and
Dressed), Paris, 1981"
sold for $662,500,
smashing the previous 2007 record for the photographer of $380,725, while the
Stern image "The Last Sitting", one of the last pictures of Monroe before her
death,
sold for $146,500, shattering the $63,000 mark set in 1994.
The entire
Constantiner Collection fetched $7.7 million, the highest total for
a single owner dedicated photographs sale, Christie's said. Both of these
photos were part of the Constantiner Collection, which included the
largest-ever grouping of Monroe photos to come to market, more than 100 in
all.
"The superb results achieved for this collection demonstrate the potential of
works bought with true passion and considerable connoisseurship to perform
magnificently even in the present uncertain economic climate," said Philippe
Garner, Christie's international head of photographs, in a statement.
"The results also confirm the central position that Helmut Newton has rightly
been accorded as a master photographer of the 20th century, and, of course,
Marilyn Monroe's magical appeal has proven to be truly timeless," he said.
2007
Richard Prince
reclaimed the record for most expensive
photo sold at auction, when a print of his sold at
Sotheby's
in New York for
$3,401,000.00
The price narrowly exceeded the previous record of $3.34 million
for an Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sotheby's in London in February
2007.
The record-breaking Prince image is from his untitled cowboy series –
in which Prince photographed sections of Marlboro cigarette ads
and enlarged the photos to an enormous size. The photo sold
at Sotheby's measures 100 by 66 inches and was one of an
edition of two plus one artist's proof. It is dated 2001-02.
Click image to enlarge.
Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sotheby's for
$3,340,000.00
in London in February 2007.
About Gursky
Click photo to enlarge.
Another Gursky store image.
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Edward Weston's 1927 Nautilus Shell went for a whopping
$1,105,000.00
at Sotheby's in October of '07.
A report from that auction, blow by blow:
http://www.iphotocentral.com/news/article_view.php/144/135/794
NOTE: An amazing $3.7 million came from just 24
photographs by Edward Weston
Auction Action 2005 - 2006
“The Pond-Moonlight,” by Edward Steichen,
taken on Long Island in 1904, sold for
$2,928,000.00
A 1904 Edward Steichen photo of a moonlit pond has
shattered
the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.
The print, "The Pond-Moonlight," went for $2,928,000 at Sotheby's
in New York, more than doubling the previous record. (The old record,
$1,248,000, was set Nov. 8 at Christie's for an untitled photograph
of a Marlboro cigarette ad by contemporary
art photographer Richard Prince) is below.
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe-Hands, circa 1919.
Gelatin silver print, 9-7/16 x 7-1/2 inches.
Courtesy of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
$1,472,000.00
In Feb. of 2006, two photographs of the artist
Georgia
O'Keeffe (1887-1986),
taken by
Alfred Stieglitz, her husband
(Alfred
Stieglitz, American, 1864-1946), also beat the
highest
amount ever paid for a single photo ($1,248,000- see 'Cowboy' immediately
below).
A photograph of her hands sold for $1,472,000, and a
portrait of her nude sold
for $1,360,000, at Sotheby's in February of 2006.
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The record for a photograph
in 2005 sold at auction,
$1,248,000.00
was set in November of 2005
by the selling of Richard Prince's “Untitled (Cowboy)”
Article on the first single photo to go over 1 million.
Spring Auction Action-
2004:
Sotheby's
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"Identical Twins"
by Diane Arbus
sold for
$478,400.00
"Agassiz Rock and the Yosemite Falls, from Union Point"
by Carleton Watkins sold
$310,400.00
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"Negro Barbershop Interior, Atlanta"
by Walker Evans
sold for
$198,400.00
(This exact image sold only
two years earlier for
$98,600!)
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"Pepper No. 30"
by Edward Weston sold for
$130,700.00
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"Bandolier, Corn and Guitar"
by Tina Modotti sold
for
$120,000.00
Christie's
"Shadows and Reflections, Venice"
by Alvin Langdon
Coburn sold for
$365,900.00
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"Nude with a Gun, Villa d'Este, Como"
by Helmut Newton
sold for
$181,100.00
Auction Action in 2002/2003
Christie's
Andreas Gursky ... $292,000.
Richard Prince
(untitled- Sunglasses, straw & soda) ... $94,000
Sotheby's
Cindy Sherman - untitled #209, (color self portrait
from 1989)...$269,000
Cindy Sherman - untitled #94 (from 1982) ... $259,000
Thomas Struth's "Pantheon, Rome,"... $270,000
Private collector action:
Man Ray "Glass Tears"... substantially more than a million dollars, setting a
new world record at that time.
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In 2000, the Man Ray photo "Glass Tears" sold for a
price
widely thought to be
$1,250,000.00,
according to Alex Novak,
a photo art dealer who edits the E-Photo Newsletter.
That would
have been the first image to break
the one million dollar mark in the
photographic art industry.
List of top 10 most
expensive auctioned
photographs to date (as of July, 2009)
Per wikipedia
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Andreas Gursky,
99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007,
Sotheby's London auction. A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon
sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery, and a third
print sold for $2.25 million at Sotheby's in May 2006.
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Edward Steichen,
The Pond-Moonlight (1904), $2,928,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New
York auction.
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Edward Weston, Nude (1925), $1,609,000, April 2008,
Sotheby's New York auction.
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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000,
February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.
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Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000,
February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.
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Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), $1,248,000, November
2005, Christie's New York auction.
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Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, 113.Athènes, T[emple] de J[upiter]
olympien pris de l'est (1842) $922,488, 2003, auction.
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Gustave Le Gray, The Great Wave, Sete (1857) $838,000, 1999.
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Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987) $643,200, 2006.
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Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948) $609,600,
Sotheby's New York auction, 2006.
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A couple of interesting quotes about auctions
by Jerry Saltz from his Village Voice
article
Hammered on May 26th, 2005
Complete article here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0522,saltz,64442,13.html
...Contemporary art auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market,
trading floor, theater, and brothel. They are rarefied entertainments where
speculation, spin, and trophy hunting merge as an insular caste enacts a highly
structured ritual in which the codes of consumption and peerage are manipulated
in plain sight. Everyone says auctions are about "quality." In fact, auctions
are altars to the disconnect between the inner life of art and the outer life of
consumption, places where artists are cut off from their art. Auctions have
nothing to do with quality. At auctions new values are assigned and desire is
fetishized. Consumption becomes a sort of sacrament, art plays the role of
sacrificial lamb, and the Ponzi scheme that surrounds it all rolls on....
...Auctions are like stripteases, relying on the audience
being enticed by what’s out of reach...
...The greed, stupidity, and cupidity of many of the people who buy and
sell their art at auctions has created what I call the "parallel market":
artists whose auction prices far exceed what their work costs in
galleries. Christie's international co-head of post-war contemporary art,
Amy Cappellazzo, ruefully admits, "Some people prefer to spend $500,000 at
auction on something they could buy privately for $50,000." She calls
these people "traders." Auction houses rely on the fact that many of their
buyers either don't know that much about art, that they'll buy almost
anything if it has the right name on it, or that they don't care. So much
for "quality." ...
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We are interested is selling any photographic
art you
may have, on consignment.
Please e mail us with any questions.
We would be especially interested is consigning art
from the following artists:
Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Herb Ritts, Walker Evans, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman,
Thomas Struth, Brett Weston, Duane Michals, Leonard Misonne, Lisette Model, Kurt w.
Baasch, Tom Baril, howard
d. beach, wright Morris, william Mortenson, michael Mulno, Nickolas Muray,
Eadweard Muybridge, Olivia Parker, Howard D. Beach, Robert Officer, Michael
Berman, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Karl Blossfeldt, Meyer, Jr., P.H. Emerson,
Chansonetta Emmons, J.C. Fardon, Louis Fleckenstein, Annette Fournet, Paul
Fuscoarker, Norman Parkinson, John Pfahl, Eliot Porter, Nancy Rexroth, Albert G.
Richards, F. A. Rinehart, Willy Ronis, Phillip Scholtz Ritterman, D.J. Ruzicka,
Charles T. Scowen, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Camille Solyagua, Eduard J.
Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Sturr, Jules Szanton, Max Thorek, George Tice,
Bill Timmerman, Jerry Uelsmann, Burk Uzzle, Cheryl van Hooven, Melissa Inez Walker,
Bradford washburn, Alex Webb, Jack Welpott,
Jo Whaley, Minor White, Marion post wolcott, Arnols Genthe, Mario Giacomellit,
Edward Weston, Ralph Gibson, Henry b. Goodwin, Johan Hagemeyer, William F.
Happich, Declan Haun, Beatrice Helg, Carol Henry, chip hooper, George Hurrell,
Don James, Arthur kales, yousuf karsh, Michael Kenna, Rudolf Kippitz, Heinrich
Kuehn, Clarence John Laughlin, Wellington Lee, George Platt Lynes, Danny Lyon,
David Malin, Aubrey Bodine, Bill Brandt, Michael Seewald, Alolphe Braun, Kate
Breakey, Marilyn Bridges, Anne Brigman, Wynn Bullock, Jerry Burchfield,
Ruth Bernhard, (we had a show of Ruth's work back in 1998,
where she came down and attended the opening), Christopher Burkett, Jon Burris,
Harry Callahan, Camera Work Magazines, Julia Margaret Cameron, Paul Capronigro,
Keith Carter, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walter Chappell, Alvin Langdon Coburn, J.
Walter Collinge, John Collins, Larry Colwel,
Stephan Couturier, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Curtis Sheriff,
William Dassonville, and Bruce Davidson
Thanks,
Valerie Seewald
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reset 10.'08
Duane Michals, leonard misonne, lisette model, kurt w. baasch, tom baril, howard
d. beach, wright morris, william mortensen, michael mulno, nickolas muray,
eadweard muybridge, olivia Parker, Howard D. Beach, Robert Officer, Michael
Berman, jayne hinds bidaut, Karl Blossfeldt, meyer, Jr., p.h. emerson,
Chansonetta Emmons, j.c. fardon, Louis Fleckenstein, annette fournet, paul
fuscoarker, norman parkinson, john pfahl, eliot porter, nancy rexroth, Albert G.
Richards, F. A. Rinehart, Willy Ronis, phillip scholtz ritterman, d.j. ruzicka,
charles t. scowen, aaron siskind, w. eugene smith, camille solyagua, Eduard J.
Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, edward sturr, Jules Szanton, max thorek, george tice,
bill timmerman, jerry uelsmann, burk uzzle, cheryl van hooven, melissa inez
walker, bradford washburn, alex webb, jack welpott, brett weston, edward weston,
jo whaley minor white, marion post wolcott, arnols genthe, mario giacomellit,
Edward Weston, ralph gibson, henry b. goodwin, Johan Hagemeyer, william f.
happich, declan haun, beatrice helg, carol henry, chip hooper, George Hurrell,
don james, arthur kales, yousuf karsh, michael kenna, rudolf kippitz, heinrich
kuehn, clarence john laughlin, welliington lee, george platt lynes, danny lyon,
david malin, aubrey bodine, bill brandt, michael seewald, alolphe braun, kate
breakey, marilyn bridges, anne brigman, wynn bullock, jerry burchfield, ruth
bernhard, christopher burkett, Jon Burris, harry callahan, camera work, julia
margaret cameron, paul capronigro, keith carter, henri cartier-bresson, walter
chappell, alvin langdon coburn, j. walter collinge, john collins, larry colwel,
stephan couturier, Imogen Cunningham, edward curtis, edward curtis sheriff,
william dassonville, bruce davidson, ansel adams,
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