Helmut Newton - Photographs New York Thursday, October 8, 2015 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Hamiltons Gallery, London
    Christie's, New York, 'Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection', 17 December 2008, lot 259
    Camera Work, Berlin

  • Literature

    Helmut Newton, Archives de Nuit, Crédit Fonçier, n.p.
    Taschen, Helmut Newton: Work, p. 228

  • Artist Biography

    Helmut Newton

    German • 1920 - 2004

    Helmut Newton's distinct style of eroticism and highly produced images was deemed rebellious and revolutionary in its time, as he turned the expected notion of beauty, depicted by passive and submissive women, on its head. Depicting his models as strong and powerful women, Newton reversed gender stereotypes and examined society's understanding of female desire.

    Newton created a working space for his models that was part decadent and part unorthodox — a safe microcosm in which fantasies became reality. And perhaps most famously of all, Newton engendered an environment in which his female models claimed the space around them with unapologetic poise and commanding sensuality. His almost cinematic compositions provided a hyper-real backdrop for the provocative images of sculptural, larger-than-life women, and enhanced the themes of voyeurism and fetishism that run throughout his work.

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Domestic Nude III, In the Laundry Room of the Château Marmont, Hollywood

1992
Gelatin silver print.
42 x 33 3/4 in. (106.7 x 85.7 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 3/5 in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

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New York Auction 8 October 2015