Helmut Newton - Photographs London Tuesday, November 22, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Sotheby's, New York, 9 October 2009, lot 209

  • Literature

    Vogue Paris, November 1981, p. 164
    Helmut Newton, World Without Men, New York: Xavier Moreau, 1984, p. 72
    Helmut Newton: Private Property, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1989, pl. 37
    Helmut Newton: Big Nudes, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1990, n.p.
    M. Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography since 1945, New York: Rizzoli, 1991, p. 241
    Z. Felix ed., The Best of Helmut Newton, New York: Thunder's Mouth, 1996, pl. 32
    I. Jeffrey, The Photography Book, London: Phaidon, 1997, p. 345
    Helmut Newton: Pages from the Glossies: Facsimiles 1956–1998, Göttingen: Steidl, 1998, p. 460
    Helmut Newton: Work, Cologne: Taschen, 2000, p. 189
    H. Koetzle, Photo Icons. The Story Behind the Photos., Vol. 2, Cologne: Taschen, 2002, p. 146, 151
    Helmut Newton: Private Property, Munich: Schirmer, 2003, pl. 37

  • 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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Sie Kommen, Naked, Paris

1981
Gelatin silver print on ferrotyped paper, printed January 1982.
42.2 x 35.4 cm (16 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Signed, titled, dated, variously annotated in ink, copyright credit reproduction limitation and print stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for £44,100

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London Auction 22 November 2022