Fashion Photo, results

From 2nd December to 11th Christie’s has been hosting an online auction of fashion photography with affordable prints from artists such as Cecil Beaton, Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon and Horst P. Horst.

Fashion Photo presents works by leading editorial photographers spanning the history of the medium that celebrate fashion, glamour, elegance and beauty. Emblematic images by Richard Avedon, Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn and Edward Steichen are presented alongside recent work by Arthur Elgort, Herb Ritts and Inez & Vinoodh. Portraits of the photographers themselves; David Bailey by Terry O’Neill, Izis Bidermanas of Avedon surrounded by his favourite collaborators, and the Vogue photographers of 1970, the personal copy belonging to Cecil Beaton, bring to life the fun and creativity involved in making great fashion pictures, that not only gained reputation through the printed page, but are today sought after in the form of spectacular prints

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The auction brought in a combined sales total of $221,500.

The most expensive print was, perhaps unsurprisingly, Irving Penn’s classic Black and White Fashion (with handbag) (Jean Patchett), New York, which sold for $75,000.

Richard Avedon’s Veruschka, Dress by Kimberly, New York Studio, January, 1967 was the second most expensive print with a hammer price of $25,000 and William Klein rounding out the top three with Hat and Five Roses, which out-performed its $7,000-$9,000 estimate by selling for $15,000.

Click on the photo titles to view each image or browse all the sold lots on Christie’s web page here.