Phillips Photographs Auction; Oct 2018

This season’s photography auctions are finally upon us, kicking off with a Photographs auction from Phillips.

On Thursday 4th October Phillips New York will be hosting the first Photographs auction of the season with 200 lots available with work from artists such as Cindy Sherman, Man Ray, Wolfgang Tillmans, Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Josef Ruzicka Drahomir (featured image) and Edward Weston, with estimates ranging from $2,000 to $200,000. The auction will take place over two sessions, the first taking place in the morning from 11am, and the second taking place in the afternoon at 3pm. Bids can be cast online at the dedicated page here.

A press release concerning the auction has been published by Phillips noting:

“Our Photographs sale brings together a wonderful group of works that span the very best of the photographic medium,” said Sarah Krueger, Head of Department, Photographs, New York. “From Wolfgang Tillmans’ Freischwimmer 20 to Helmut Newton’s large-scale print of his iconic Saddle II, this sale pairs contemporary and classic prints to showcase the wide breadth of 20th and 21st century photography.”

The lots leading the sale include Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #296 which has an estimate of $180,000 to $200,000, and Wolfgang Tillman’s Freischwimmer 20, which is:

“an exquisite example from Tillmans’ most renowned series of cameraless abstractions. Like his predecessors Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy, who famously experimented with cameraless photography as one aspect of their wildly diverse oeuvres, Tillmans reduces his practice to the most elementary components of the medium: light, paper and chemistry. These masterful abstractions both delight the eye and challenge the mind, reframing our contemporary notions of photography while incorporating the earliest of photographic techniques.”

Tillman’s lot has an estimate of $120,000 to $180,000.

The e-catalogue for this auction can be viewed for free at Issuu here

Other upcoming photography auctions include Photographs sales from Sotheby’s and Christie’s. See the upcoming calendar here.