Sotheby’s Contemporary Photographs; October 2018

A last minute announcement sees Sotheby’s overtake Phillips and Christie’s to be the first auction house to host photography sales this season. Just a week after it’s online auction Photographs Online, Sotheby’s is hosting Contemporary Photographs on Wednesday 3rd October in New York with work from Marina Abramovic, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Candida Hofer (featured), Andreas Gursky and Thomas Ruff. Estimates range from $3,000 to $120,000.

The leading lot is a landscape from Andreas Gursky (whose work remains the most expensive photograph ever to be sold at auction) with Gardasee with an estimate of $80,00 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s announce:

Our second annual Contemporary Photographs auction offers a wide array of photographs made in the 20th and 21st-centuries, including cameraless photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans, works by pioneering female photographers Carrie Mae Weems, Marina Abramović, Ana Mendieta, and Jemima Stehli that fearlessly address racial and gender issues, and entrancing mural-sized photographs by Richard Misrach, Massimo Vitali, and Andreas Gursky. Boundary-pushing photographs from the 1980s are represented by Ellen Carey, Robert Heinecken, and three works by East Village icon Jimmy De Sana. 

View lots from this auction and register to bid here.