Fine Photographs
Lots: 369
Chiswick Auctions is delighted to present our upcoming Fine Photographs auction, an exciting opportunity to acquire an array of vintage, modern, and contemporary photography, going under the hammer on Thursday, 27 November.
Offering a diverse selection of prints from across the history of the medium, highlights include seminal works by British photographers including Bill Brandt, John Davies, Graham Smith, and Fay Godwin; an outstanding selection of landscape photography, featuring works by Koyo Okada, Harry Callahan, Stephen Shore, and Richard Misrach, among others; and a wide-range of alluring fashion photographs by Sarah Moon, Horst P Horst, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Guy Bourdin, and Juergen Teller.
We are also pleased to present works from two private collections, including Global Vision: Contemporary Photographs from a Private London Collection, a curated selection of fresh-to-market images from international artists, including Richard Mosse, Mikhael Subotzky, Lorna Simpson, Vasantha Yogananthan, and others; as well as Part Two of From a Private Collection: 30 Years of Passionate Collecting, featuring works from a distinguished private collection, assembled over more than three decades with instinct, emotion, and a deep appreciation for the photographic medium.
Lot 1 - Daguerreian Unknown, c.1855 A Patriarch With His Male Heirs, c.1855
Sold for £227
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 2 - Photographer Unknown (XIX) Articles of Silver Glass, Barnard & Sons, c.1860
Sold for £347
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 3 - Antoine François Jean Claudet (1797-1867) Stereoscopic Portrait of John Reeves, 1852
Sold for £479
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Lot 5 - Frederick Henry Evans (1853-1943) Winchester Cathedral, Carved Head from Screen, 1900
Sold for £1,071
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Lot 6 - § Charlotte Cory (b.1956) Cabinet of Curiosities 'Photomelange'
Sold for £139
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 7 - Dr. John Murray (1809-1898) Ruins of Palace Front, Agra, 1850
Sold for £2,772
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 8 - Dr. John Murray (1809-1898) Landscape with Figures, likely the Lake at Nainital, c.1855
Sold for £693
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Lot 10 - Henri Charles Emmanuel de Rostaing (1824-1885) Riviére à Saumons à Duggery, c.1860
Estimated at £800 - £1,200
Lot 11 - Hugh Owen (1808-1897) Mary Le Port Street and St. Peters Church 1850-1855
Estimated at £200 - £300
Lot 12 - Frederick Fiebig (active 1849-1853) Parthasarathy Temple, Madras, 1851
Sold for £428
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 14 - Eugène Ducretet (1844-1915) & Others Three Early X-Ray Photographs
Estimated at £600 - £800
Lot 17 - Palomar & Wilson Observatories, California Celestial Views, c.1950
Sold for £882
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 19 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) Route de Gaillon, 1912
Sold for £3,528
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 20 - Czech Photography, 20th century A Collection of Vintage Czech Photography, 1930s-1960s
Estimated at £150 - £250
Lot 21 - Edward Chambré Hardman (1898-1988) A Memory of Avignon, 1926
Sold for £529
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 22 - § Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) Nancy Beaton, Costume Study, c.1920s
Sold for £554
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 25 - Edward Steichen (1879-1973) Untitled (Portrait),1906
Sold for £504
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Lot 26 - § Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) Untitled [Olympic Swimmer], c.1936
Sold for £693
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Lot 27 - § Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) Curieuse, Ingneue, & Les Demoiselles, c.1920s
Sold for £1,134
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Lot 29 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) Renée, Eden Roc, Cap d'Antibes, August 1931
Sold for £945
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 31 - Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) Renée, Nice, February 1931
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 32 - Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Lisa (Fonssagrives-Penn), Hands with Flask & Flowers, c.1980
Sold for £4,032
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Lot 33 - § Lala Meredith-Vula (b.1966) Untitled [Self-Portrait], c.1990
Sold for £164
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 35 - PAJAMA (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French) George Tooker via Appia, 1949
Sold for £913
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Lot 36 - § Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) Untitled [Olympia, Athens], c.1936
Sold for £3,528
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 38 - § William Klein (1926-2022) Revolving Murals, Milan, 1952
Sold for £882
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 39 - § Dorothy Bohm (1924-2023) The Reichstag, Berlin, 2006
Sold for £1,071
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 40 - Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972) Untitled (Mask Hanging From Fence), c.1963
Sold for £958
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Lot 41 - Imre Kinszki (1901-1945) Acer Campestres (Field Maple); Human Spittle; Gnat's Wing; 1930s
Sold for £819
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Lot 42 - § Willy Ronis (1910-2009) Marie-Anne et Vincent, Seine et Marne, 1952
Estimated at £1,000 - £2,000
Lot 44 - Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) Rome, 1963; Untitled, 1949
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 48 - Aaron Siskind (1903-1991) Chicago 53, 1952; Gloucester 6, 1944
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 50 - § Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) Picasso, La Ligne de Chance, 1952
Sold for £1,764
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 51 - § Robert Doisneau (1912-1994) Le Corbusier With His Dog Pinceau, c.1944
Sold for £819
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 52 - John Hedgecoe (1932-2010) Artists' Portraits, c.1950s-1970s
Sold for £353
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 54 - Barry McKinley (active 1960s-1980s) Georgia O'Keeffe, c.1984
Sold for £403
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 55 - Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) Jean Cocteau, Poet Drawing, 1949
Sold for £1,260
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 56 - Hiroji Kubota (b.1939) André Kertész at Home, New York City, December 1984
Sold for £529
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 57 - § Andre Villers (b.1954) Pablo Picasso in the La Californie Studio, Cannes, 1956
Sold for £819
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 59 - § Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) Untitled (Model), c.1959
Sold for £6,048
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 61 - Wilhelm von Pluschow (1852-1930) Male Nude, c.1900
Sold for £1,638
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 62 - § Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) Untitled (Tied Legs), 1960s
Sold for £2,268
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 63 - Herb Ritts (1952-2002) Greg Louganis, Hollywood, 1985
Sold for £3,528
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 65 - § Thurston Hopkins (1913-2014) In a London Club, Soho, 1950
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 67 - § Bill Brandt (1904-1983) London [Nude with Bent Elbow], 1952
Sold for £6,930
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 68 - § Herbert List (1903-1975) Olympieion, Athens, 1937
Sold for £3,024
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 69 - § Bill Brandt (1904-1983) Nude, Sussex Coast, 1979
Sold for £4,536
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 70 - § Norman Parkinson (1913-1990) Pamela Minchin, Brighton Pier, 1938
Estimated at £700 - £900
Lot 74 - Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Body Parts, Oyster Bay, NY, 1989
Sold for £2,016
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Lot 78 - Hal Morey (20th Century) Grand Central Station, New York, 1930
Sold for £1,512
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 79 - Andreas Feininger (1906-1999) Lower Manhattan From The Brooklyn Bridge, 1940
Sold for £1,008
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 80 - Ralph Steiner (1899-1986) Saratoga Coal Company, 1929
Sold for £504
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 82 - Arthur Leipzig (1918-2014) Divers, East River, 1948
Sold for £1,134
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 87 - Ralph Steiner (1899-1986) An Archive of Contact Prints & Correspondence, 1984
Sold for £2,268
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 88 - § Herbert List (1903-1975) Poseidon/ Neptune, Sacro Bosco, Italy, 1952
Estimated at £1,000 - £2,000
Lot 90 - Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985) The Grappler, 1953
Sold for £756
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Lot 91 - Herb Quick (1925-2006) Christie Machine Works, San Francisco, 1950
Sold for £277
Includes Buyer's Premium
Lot 92 - Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971) In Old Age, Lansdale, Arkansas, 1937
Sold for £1,071
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Lot 93 - Charles Gimpel (1913-1973) A Pair of Vintage Exhibition Prints, 1961-1965
Estimated at £250 - £350
Lot 95 - Luigi Domenico Gismondi (1872-1946) Amayra Portraits, Bolivia, c.1910-1920s
Estimated at £600 - £800
Lot 96 - Ansel Adams (1902-1984) Papago [Tohondo O'odham] Man, Tucson, Arizona, c.1953
Sold for £756
Includes Buyer's Premium