| | | | | | | Karl Blossfeldt
Aconitum anthora, 1915-1920
Vintage gelatin silver print
29.7 x 23.7 cm
€ 30,000- 40,000
Lot 4 / Auction 1142 | | | Lempertz Photography | | | Auctions 1142 | 30 Years of Photography at Lempertz – 30 Photographic Masterpieces
Photography | Friday 29 November 2019, 1.30 pm
Auctions 1144 | Contemporary Art + Photography
Friday 29 November 2019, 7 pm | Saturday 30 November 2019, 3 pm | | | | | | | | Lempertz Neumarkt 3, 50667 Cologne / Germany
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| | | | | | | | | Raoul Ubac
Untitled (from the series: Penthésilée), 1939
Vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper
27.2 x 39.5 cm
€ 20,000-25,000
Lot 11 / Auction 1142 | | | | | Auction 1142 │ 30 Years of Photography at Lempertz – 30 Photographic Masterpieces (lots 1-30)
On the occasion of our anniversary, we are covering a wide range in terms of content and technology with this special catalogue from the beginnings of photography up to the most recent present. The first is the exceptionally beautiful, large-format daguerreotype by an anonymous photographer who immortalised the Reinecke Quartett in the mid-19th century (lot 1, € 3/4,000). With Heinrich Kühn’s blue pigmented, impressionistic gum bichromate Auslaufendes Segelboot, a top piece of pictorialist photography from the turn of the century comes to the fore (lot 2, € 20/25,000). Names such as August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Karl Blossfeldt are emblematic of New Objectivity photography of the 1920s and are each represented by characteristic works (lots 4 – 6, € 12/40,000). Raoul Ubac’s photographic interpretation of the Penthesilea theme from Greek mythology is one of the most fascinating images produced by French surrealism (lot 11, € 20/25,000). In the context of the social documentary Photographie Humaniste, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s famous photograph of two couples relaxing on the banks of the Marne River was taken at about the same time (lot 10, €8/12,000). | | | | | | | | | NASA
Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin walks on the Surface of the Moon, Apollo 11, 1969
Vintage chromogenic print on Kodak paper
48.3 x 38.1 cm (mat opening)
€ 20,000
Lot 19 / Auction 1142 | | | | | | A considerable part of the photographic production of the 20th century is due to the field of applied, commissioned photography. It is represented in our catalogue by Horst P. Horst’s famous fashion photo of the Mainbocher Corset (lot 12, € 10/15,000) or Julius Shulman’s night shot of the spectacular Case Study House #22 (lot 17, € 10/15,000).
In addition, there are photographs that have shaped our perception of the most important historical events in the second half of the 20th century and are now firmly anchored in the collective image memory: Neil Armstrong’s shot of the first steps of his colleague "Buzz" Aldrin on the surface of the moon (lot 19, € 20,000) and the equally shocking as well as captivating pictorial documents of the US American atomic bomb tests on the Bikini Atoll (lot 13, € 10/15,000). Leni Riefenstahl’s anthropological-documentary photographs of the Sudanese Nuba tribe with their formally demanding pictorial aesthetics also prove that documentation and artistic will to form can enter into a perfect synthesis (lot 20, € 80/100,000). | | | | | | | | | Peter Lindbergh
Helena Christensen, Mohave Desert, Vogue Italy, 1990
Gelatin silver print, printed c. 2000
24.2 x 36 cm (30.3 x 40.3 cm)
€ 10,000-15,000
Lot 23 / Auction 1142 | | | | | | | Photography of the late 20th century is inextricably linked with the Düsseldorf School of Photography. Andreas Gursky and Thomas Struth are among their most internationally renowned protagonists and are each represented with works from their early creative phases (lots 21-22, € 6/22,000). Günther Förg can be described as a border crosser between the media, who integrates photography quite naturally and equally into his artistic instrument (lot 25, € 40/50,000). Finally, one of the most recent masterpieces is by Wolfgang Tillmans, undoubtedly one of the most popular German photo artists of recent years (lot 29, € 8/10,000). | | | | | | | | | Chris Levine
Lightness of Being, 2010
Lenticular print
67.4 x 47.6 cm
€ 25,000
Lot 28 / Auction 1142 | | | | | | Auction 1142 │ Photography (lot 31 – 180)
The regular Photography auction also features an interesting and wide-ranging offer of classical photography from the 19th to 21st centuries. August Sander’s Konfirmandin (lot 52, € 4/5,000) is a large-format print of his famous motif from "People of the 20th Century”, made during the artist’s lifetime. Two extensive, almost complete sets of photographic postcards by Lucia Moholy and Erich Consemüller (lot 56, € 5/7,000), and Dr. Otto Lossen (lot 57, € 3/4,000), are dedicated to the Bauhaus Dessau with its designs and master houses, and the Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart with its spectacular architecture exhibition.
With his famous shots of dunes and mud flats on the North and Baltic Seas, Alfred Ehrhardt is one of the classics of New Objectivity photography in Germany (lot 66, € 1/1,500, and lot 67, € 2,500/3,000). This also applies to Albert Renger-Patzsch, whose photographs from the 1950s presented here include important testimonies to the industrial culture of the Ruhr region as well as pearls of landscape photography. Particularly noteworthy is a silvery-fine, almost shimmering shot of a Wintertag an der Möhne showing a group of weeping willows covered in hoarfrost (lot 106, € 3/4,000). Renger’s objective photographic style stands in contrast to the photography of Otto Steinert, the founder of the Fotoform Group: Also dedicated the industrial culture, the solarized negative print Saarländische Industrielandschaft 3 (lot 109, € 3/4,000) is an important work of subjective photography. The Belgian surrealist Marcel-G. Lefrancq also followed a similar experimental approach with negative montages and double exposures, as seen with the four lots offered here (lots 84-87, € 800-5,000).
Classical American photography is presented in the auction by Edward Weston’s beautiful landscape San Carlos Lake, Arizona (lot 93, € 6/7,000). As the main representative of "straight photography”, Weston was an important model for the Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo whose nude shot La fruta prohibida is offered here in form of a platinum palladium print (lot 150, € 3,500). Srinagar, Kashmir is one of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s famous reportage shots of India, here as an early print from the 1960s (lot 119, € 4,500/5,500). The shot of Schillerslage, Hannover appears less documental and more poetic, showing a fully loaded potato trailer in front of a bare field. It is one of Heinrich Riebesehl’s most famous and most sought-after photographs in auctions (lot 153, € 3/4,000). For the lovers of fashion photography, Lynne Koester, Pin up studio, Vogue Italy by the recently deceased photographer Peter Lindbergh will be of interest (lot 166, € 10/15,000). Impressive not only for its size but also for its strong graphic black and white contrasts is the shot of a herd of zebras by David Yarrow, Parallel Lines (lot 169, € 18/20,000). | | | | | | Auktion 1144 | Contemporary Art + Photography
Various photographic works by contemporary artists will also be offered in the Contemporary Art auction on 29/30 November, including a large-format by Günther Förg (lot 647, € 40/50,000), two works by Thomas Ruff from different work groups (lot 763/764, € 15/20,000 and € 20/25,000), as well as an early collaborative work by Marina Abramović & Ulay (lot 760, €15/20,000). | | | | | | | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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