Fine Photographs
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Lots: 351
This May, Chiswick Auctions presents a diverse and exciting selection of vintage, modern, and contemporary photography, going under the hammer on 21 May 2026. Central to the sale is a curated selection of British photography from across the 20th century — including iconic works by Martin Parr, definitive Picture Post images from social documentarians Bert Hardy and Thurston Hopkins, luminous landscapes by rambler-photographer Fay Godwin, and a fascinating archive of personal vintage prints from the studio of Dorothy Wilding, Britain's first female royal photographer. The sale also features a wide-array of 20th-century photographs from across the pond, including vintage prints by American landscape masters Edward Weston and Brett Weston, a rare Ansel Adams view of Unicorn Peak, Yosemite, a unique combination print-postcard, hand-annotated and posted by Sally Mann in 1975, and an impressive print of William Klein's 1954 "Gun I, New York", contact sheet, overpainted in 2004 and editioned as an oversized print. Highlights from later in the 20th century include a strong selection of fashion photographs, including works by Terence Donovan, Sarah Moon, Helmut Newton, Patrick Demarchelier, Herb Ritts, and Juergen Teller, among many others.
Lot 1 - Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) The Nestling Angel, 1872
Sold for £5,796
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 4 - Roger Fenton (1819-1869) Group Portrait, Crimean War, 1855- 1856
Sold for £1,638
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 5 - Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) Plate 642, from Animal Locomotion, 1887
Sold for £882
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 10 - John Dugdale (b.1960) Ci hanno Lasciato (They Left Us), 1997
Sold for £1,638
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 13 - Dick Arentz (b.1935) Wells Cathedral, Stairs to Chapter House II, 1990
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 15 - § Germaine Krull (1879-1985) Mercier Frères Furniture Store, Paris, 1931
Estimated at £400 - £600
![Lot 18 - Yevonde [Madame Yevonde] (1893-1975)](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/272812-1-small.jpg?v=63912813899353)
Lot 18 - § Yevonde [Madame Yevonde] (1893-1975) Studio Portrait of Louise Brown, 1938
Sold for £945
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 19 - Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, High Fashion, 1938-1939
Sold for £2,268
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 20 - Clarence Sinclair Bull (1896-1979) Ann Sothern [Harriette Arlene Lake], 1942
Sold for £151
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 21 - Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939
Sold for £7,560
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 26 - Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Gloria Vanderbilt, 1941
Sold for £4,536
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 29 - § Miroslav Tichý (1926-2011) Untitled, c.1960s-1980s
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 33 - Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Black Corset, New York, 1948
Sold for £2,268
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 35 - § Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) In the Box, 1962 [Horizontal & Vertical]
Sold for £3,024
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 36 - Stephan Brigidi (b.1951) Woman with Large Plate [Francesca Woodman], Rome, 1978
Sold for £3,780
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 37 - § Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) Configuration, San Francisco, 1962
Sold for £945
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 38 - § Otto Steinert (1915-1978) A Pair of Dancer Studies, c.1960
Sold for £504
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 39 - § Miroslav Tichý (1926-2011) Untitled, c.1960s-1980s
Sold for £819
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 40 - George Platt Lynes (1907 - 1955) Ted Starkowski, 1950s
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 41 - Wilhelm von Pluschow (1852-1930) Male Nude, c.1900
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 42 - George Platt Lynes (1907 - 1955) Ted Starkowski, 1950s
Sold for £882
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 45 - Dizzy Howard (XX-) & Greg Lucas (XX-) Trespassing on Private Rocks, 1994
Sold for £277
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 46 - Ida Kar (1908-1974) A Group of Three Vintage Prints, c.1960s
Sold for £252
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 47 - Photographer Unknown (c.1937) Ida Kar & Her First Husband Edmond Belali, Paris, 1937
Sold for £202
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 48 - Ida Kar (1908-1974) Portraits of Artists Augustus John, 1959 & Sergei Konenkov, 1962
Sold for £328
Includes Buyer's Premium
![Lot 49 - Brassaï [Gyula Halász] (1899–1984)](https://chiswick.blob.core.windows.net/stock/272540-1-small.jpg?v=63912884931527)
Lot 50 - Ida Kar (1908-1974) Three Studies of Marcel Duchamp, c.1950s
Sold for £554
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 51 - § André Kertész (1894-1985) Life Mask with Bird, c.1970s
Sold for £819
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 53 - § William Klein (1926-2022) William Klein and His Son Pierre In the Studio, 1964
Sold for £630
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 54 - Arnold Newman (1918-2006) "Five Decades" Exhibition Archive Collection, 1999-2000
Sold for £1,512
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 55 - Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) Untitled, c.1966
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 56 - § Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000) Il Teatro Della Neve, c.1980
Sold for £1,197
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 57 - § Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) Victory of Samothrace, Louvre, Paris, c.1930s.
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 58 - § Marcus Leatherdale (1952-2022) Sphere, 1989, from 'Vanitas'
Sold for £693
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 59 - § Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) La Poupée, à Man Ray avec les hommages de Hans Bellmer, 1970
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 61 - § Alfonsas Budvytis (1949-2003) Men's Ward, No. 7, 1984
Sold for £403
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 66 - Irving Penn (1917-2009) Fish Bones on a Plate, New York, 21 October 1993
Sold for £5,292
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 68 - § Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) Dieppe, France, 1926
Sold for £3,654
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 69 - § Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) Stockholm, Tivoli Gardens, August 1972
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 72 - Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) Untitled [Self-Portrait], c.1972
Sold for £4,032
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 74 - § Andrew Lanyon (b.1947) Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After, 1970
Sold for £328
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 75 - § Sam Haskins (1926-2009) November Girl, Running with Printed Face, 1966
Estimated at £1,000 - £2,000
Lot 78 - § Willy Ronis (1910-2009) Café Rue des Cascades, 1948
Sold for £630
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 81 - § Robert Dowling (b.1946) Le Lendemain Matin, Montmartre, Paris 1986
Estimated at £400 - £600
Lot 83 - § Edouard Boubat (1923-1999) Rencontre, Passerelle, Paris, 1952
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 84 - § Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) Tuileries Gardens, Paris, 1953
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 85 - § Humphrey Spender (1910-2005) Lützowplatz, Berlin, c.1934
Sold for £529
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 86 - § Ernst Haas (1921-1986) View from Notre Dame, Paris, 1955
Sold for £2,016
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 88 - § Willy Ronis (1910-2009) Boulevard Richard Lenoir, Paris, 1946
Sold for £630
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 89 - Todd Webb (1905-2000) Knocker, Door of Hotel Lauzun, c.1950
Sold for £945
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 91 - § André Kertész (1894-1985) Untitled, No.13 [August 12, 1978], 1978
Sold for £2,772
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 95 - Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023) SNAPS [Special Collector's Edition], 2001
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 96 - § Willy Ronis (1910-2009) Le Petit Parisien, Paris, 1952
Sold for £4,788
Includes Buyer's Premium