The Face of the Century Auction

After Daydreaming: Photographs from the Goldstein Collection, Christie’s is continuing its bumper day of photography auctions with another offering of photographs from a private collection. Taking place on Tuesday 2nd April at New York’s Rockefeller Centre The Face of the Century: Photographs from a Private Collection will take place from 11 am.

The auction brings together 90 lots of sepia-toned historic images with estimates ranging from $1,000 to $500,000:

‘With an emphasis on rare and unconventional portraiture, this magnificent collection that offers representative works spanning roughly 120 years focuses on both American and European photographers including László Moholy–Nagy, Man Ray, Herbert List and more.’

Other lots include work by Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Muybridge, Gustave Le Gray, Eugene Atget and Edward Steichen, along with many portraits of famous faces such as Marlon Brando, Marcel Duchamp, Giacometti, Georgia O’Keeffe and Charlotte Rampling.

The lot with the highest estimate is Edward Weston’s Shells 6s, 1927, which has an estimate of $300,000 to $500,000. Second is an album of 84 albumen prints by Eugene Atget with an estimate of $100,000 to $150,000. In third is a silhouette by Man Ray titled Rayograph (Kiki Silhouette, Positive), 1922–1938 also with an estimate of $100,000 to $150,000.

Browse all the lots in this auction and register to bid at Christie’s dedicated webpage here.