22 mars 2010

Nobuyoshi Araki, Yakusa, 1994. photo courtesy Philips de Pury & Company Gelatin silver print. 32.4 x 40.6 cm (12 3/4 x 16 in).  Signed in pencil on the verso. Estimate £5,000-7,000. Sold at £20,000 PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist. LITERATURE  Araki by Araki: The photographer’s personal selection 1963–2002, Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2003, p. 356; Araki: Self, Life, Death, Phaidon: London, 2005, p. 650 Philips de Pury & Company. Sex. 19 March 2010. London www.phillipsdepury.com

Pamela Hanson, Carla Bruni Smoking, Vogues Hommes, Paris, 1994. photo courtesy Philips de Pury & Company Gelatin silver print, printed later. 48.1 x 38.1 cm (18 15/16 x 15 in). Signed, titled, dated, numbered 10/15 in pencil and copyright credit stamp on the verso. Estimate £1,200-1,800. Sold at £1,875. PROVENANCE Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York Helmut Newton, Carla Bruni with Family Photos, at home in Cavalière, France, 1992. photo courtesy Philips de Pury & Company Colour coupler print.  50 × 49.3 cm... [Lire la suite]

Sasaha Gusov, Jude Law, 1994 Gelatin silver print, printed later. 45.6 x 30.8 cm (17 15/16 x 12, 1/8 in). Signed, dated and numbered 5/10 in pencil on the reverse of the frame. Estimate £1,000-1,500. Sold at £1,375 PROVENANCE: Acquired directly from the artist Bruce Weber, Doug Mayer, NYC, 1986. photo courtesy Philips de Pury & Company. Gelatin silver print. 41.9 x 34.3 cm (16 1/2 x 13 1/2 in).   Signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/15 in pencil on the verso. Estimate £1,500-2,500. Sold at £2,875 ... [Lire la suite]

These photographs are taken from Hong Kong artist Caroline Chiu's larger series entitled Dreaming: A Chinese Wunderkammer NOTRE DAME, IN.- The Snite Museum of Art presents the exhibition Caroline Chiu: Polaroids as Chinese Ink Painting on view through April 25, 2010. These photographs are taken from Hong Kong artist Caroline Chiu's larger series entitled Dreaming: A Chinese Wunderkammer. Wunderkammer were 17th-and 18th-century European "wonder rooms" or "cabinets of curiosity"-some of the earliest known... [Lire la suite]