Hiroshi Sugimoto, Villa Savoye, 1998
Phillips de Pury & Company's autumn photography sale will take place on 18 and 19 October in New York, featuring approximately 350 lots from the twenteith century to the present day. Ninety photographs from the LA-based Artists Management Group Collection will be featured including works by Richard Avedon, William Christenberry, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Stan Douglas, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Candida Höfer, Duane Michals, Robert Polidori, Garry Winogrand, and many others, with estimates from $2,000 to $100,000.
Artists Management Group, an entertainment management and production company, began collecting in 1999 and over a period of four years amassed an impressive array of photography. Key works to be offered in the sale include Richard Avedon's distinctively New York portrait of Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Singer, 132nd Street and FDR Drive, Harlem, New York, November 4, 1963 ($20,000 - $30,000); William Eggleston's sly but passionate essay on Elvis' mecca, William Eggleston's Graceland ($100,000 - $150,000) published in 1981 in an edition of only 31 copies; Irving Penn's Rock Groups, San Francisco, 1967 ($12,000 - $18,000) and Garry Winogrand's Muhammed Ali - Oscar Bonavena Press Conference, New York, 1970 ($7,000 - $9,000).
from William Eggleston's Graceland
Phillips de Pury will also be offering remarkable works by Robert Frank, including a selection of six works originally in the possession of Dennis Wheeler, a Canadian journalist who interviewed Frank in 1976 for the art magazine, Criteria. Two images from Frank's masterpiece, The Americans, will be offered - Butte, Montana, 1955-56 and Parade, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955 - as well as several very rare and important film stills from Frank's critical early filmmaking period, including stills from Pull My Daisy, 1959 and Me and My Brother.
Highlights from the 1970s to the present day are Robert Mapplethorpe's Parrot Tulip, 1988 ($100,000 - $150,000), a print from an edition of just two; Hiroshi Sugimoto's large-format architectural study, Villa Savoye, 1998 ($120,000 - $150,000); Nan Goldin's suite of 12 photographs, Naked New York for Matsuda, 1996 ($40,000 - $60,000); Vik Muniz's rendering of Courbet's Origin of the World, 1999 ($40,000 - $60,000) and Candida Höfer's intricate interior, Handelingenkamer Tweede der Staten- Generaal Den Haag III, 2004 ($30,000 - $50,000).
The viewing for the sale will start on Wednesday 11 October and run until Thursday 19 October.
Phillips de Pury & Company
450 West 15th Street, NYC 10011
Viewing Reception: Thursday 12 October, 6 - 8 pm.
www.phillipsdepury.com
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