Friday, October 29, 2004
New York's Fall Auction Results October 28, 2004
By Jay DeFoore
Photographs by William Eggleston, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Frank, Imogen Cunningham, Peter Lindbergh and Irving Penn achieved all-time high prices at New York's three major auction houses earlier this month.Christie's Oct. 15 sale netted $3.8 million, including world artist records for Eggleston, Mapplethorpe and Penn. Eggleston, whose prints have been soaring in price at nearly every auction over the past few years, reached a new high with "Memphis, circa 1970" printed in 1980, which sold to a European private collector for $253,900.Mapplethorpe's "Calla Lily, 1986" sold for a record $242,700, far surpassing the $55,000 high estimate. Penn's "Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), New York, 1950" (printed in 1983) sold for $101,575. Josh Holdeman, international director and head of the photographs department at Christie's, says the sale "underscores the continued expansion, strength and stability of the international photographs market."Sotheby's Oct. 16 auction totaled $4.7 million over a high estimate of $4.2 million. The top lot of the sale was Diane Arbus' "A Jewish Giant with His Parents in the Living Room of Their Home, Bronx, N.Y.," which sold for $388,800 (est. $250/350,000) but was not a record for the artist.Sotheby's raised the bar for a Robert Frank print by selling his "Hoboken" to the Howard Greenberg Gallery for $198,400. Gallery owner Peter MacGill snapped up Imogen Cunningham's "Mills College Amphitheatre" for a cool $209,600, a new record, eclipsing the $100,000 high estimate.Other top lots included Arbus' "A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y.," $232,000 and Paul Strand's "Portrait, Rebecca," $176,000.Phillips de Pury & Company auctioned off a number of contemporary works in its Oct. 13 sale, most notably Peter Lindbergh's portrait of Keith Richards, which sold for $120,000, setting a personal best for a Lindbergh print. Other notables from Phillips' sale include Thomas Ruff's "Nude FE 16," $55,200; Claude Cahun's "Self-Portrait (Don't Kiss Me I'm in Training)," $48,000; Richard Avedon's "W.H. Auden," $36,000 and Andreas Gursky's "Dusseldorf Flughafen I," $36,000.The next major photographic auction will be held Nov. 8-9 by Phillips de Pury & Company. The sale will consist of more than 300 works from "Veronica's Revenge," a collection of contemporary photographs that are part of the Lambert Art Collection.*Note: All prices include buyer's premium.Contact News Editor Jay DeFoore (jdefoore@pdnonline.com)
By Jay DeFoore
Photographs by William Eggleston, Robert Mapplethorpe, Robert Frank, Imogen Cunningham, Peter Lindbergh and Irving Penn achieved all-time high prices at New York's three major auction houses earlier this month.Christie's Oct. 15 sale netted $3.8 million, including world artist records for Eggleston, Mapplethorpe and Penn. Eggleston, whose prints have been soaring in price at nearly every auction over the past few years, reached a new high with "Memphis, circa 1970" printed in 1980, which sold to a European private collector for $253,900.Mapplethorpe's "Calla Lily, 1986" sold for a record $242,700, far surpassing the $55,000 high estimate. Penn's "Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn), New York, 1950" (printed in 1983) sold for $101,575. Josh Holdeman, international director and head of the photographs department at Christie's, says the sale "underscores the continued expansion, strength and stability of the international photographs market."Sotheby's Oct. 16 auction totaled $4.7 million over a high estimate of $4.2 million. The top lot of the sale was Diane Arbus' "A Jewish Giant with His Parents in the Living Room of Their Home, Bronx, N.Y.," which sold for $388,800 (est. $250/350,000) but was not a record for the artist.Sotheby's raised the bar for a Robert Frank print by selling his "Hoboken" to the Howard Greenberg Gallery for $198,400. Gallery owner Peter MacGill snapped up Imogen Cunningham's "Mills College Amphitheatre" for a cool $209,600, a new record, eclipsing the $100,000 high estimate.Other top lots included Arbus' "A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y.," $232,000 and Paul Strand's "Portrait, Rebecca," $176,000.Phillips de Pury & Company auctioned off a number of contemporary works in its Oct. 13 sale, most notably Peter Lindbergh's portrait of Keith Richards, which sold for $120,000, setting a personal best for a Lindbergh print. Other notables from Phillips' sale include Thomas Ruff's "Nude FE 16," $55,200; Claude Cahun's "Self-Portrait (Don't Kiss Me I'm in Training)," $48,000; Richard Avedon's "W.H. Auden," $36,000 and Andreas Gursky's "Dusseldorf Flughafen I," $36,000.The next major photographic auction will be held Nov. 8-9 by Phillips de Pury & Company. The sale will consist of more than 300 works from "Veronica's Revenge," a collection of contemporary photographs that are part of the Lambert Art Collection.*Note: All prices include buyer's premium.Contact News Editor Jay DeFoore (jdefoore@pdnonline.com)
