Joel-Peter Witkin

Laokoön, New Mexico

1992
Gelatin silver print.
15 5/8 x 15 3/8 in. (39.7 x 39.1 cm).
Signed, titled, dated, numbered 5/6 and copyright in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000

Sold for $5,000

Contact Specialist
Vanessa Kramer Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs
vhallett@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1245

Important Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana

2 & 3 April 2013
New York

1
William Eggleston
Untitled (Biloxi, Mississippi)
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
Sold for $86,500
2
William Eggleston
Untitled (Near Minter City and Glendora, Mississippi)
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
Sold for $116,500
3
Francesca Woodman
Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $86,500
4
Sally Mann
Candy Cigarette
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $134,500
5
Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes
Edward Hawes Asleep, with Hands Together
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
Sold for $80,500
6
Tina Modotti
A proud little agrarista (Mexican peasant boy)
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
7
László Moholy-Nagy
Lyon Stadium
Estimate $90,000 - 120,000
Sold for $278,500
8
Man Ray
Max Ernst
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $122,500
9
André Kertész
The Stairs of Montmartre, Paris
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
Sold for $194,500
10
František Drtikol
Untitled, Nude
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $74,500
11
Paul Outerbridge, Jr.
Standing Nude
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $21,250
12
Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O'Keeffe
Estimate $300,000 - 500,000
Sold for $302,500
13
Clarence H. White
Nude Study, Florence Peterson
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
14
Edward Weston
Shells
Estimate $120,000 - 180,000
15
Imogen Cunningham
Calla with leaf
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
Sold for $110,500
16
Horst P. Horst
Mainbocher Corset, Paris
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
17
Richard Avedon
Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $92,500
18
Herb Ritts
Versace Dress, Back View, El Mirage
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $68,500
19
Irving Penn
Harlequin Dress (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn)
Estimate $300,000 - 500,000
Sold for $290,500
20
Robert Polidori
Galerie Basse, Château de Versailles
Estimate $18,000 - 22,000
Sold for $35,000
21
Charles Sheeler
Chartres-Flying Buttresses at the Crossing
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
Sold for $50,000
22
Paul Strand
Venice, Italy
Estimate $180,000 - 220,000
23
Alfred Stieglitz
The Hand of Man
Estimate $70,000 - 90,000
Sold for $104,500
24
Margaret Bourke-White
George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, N.Y.C.
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $104,500
25
Edward Burtynsky
Shipyard #11, Qili Port, Zhejiang Province, China
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $36,250
26
Vik Muniz
Portrait of Alice Liddell, after Lewis Carroll from Rebus
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $37,500
27
Helen Levitt
N.Y.C.
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $37,500
28
Diane Arbus
Identical Twins Cathleen (l) and Colleen, Roselle, N.J.
Estimate $180,000 - 220,000
Sold for $602,500
29
Angela Strassheim
Untitled (Father & Son)
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $35,000
30
William Klein
May Day Parade, Gorki Street, Moskow
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $27,500
31
Pieter Hugo
8. David Akore, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, Ghana from Permanent Error
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $26,250
32
Robert Frank
Trolley, New Orleans
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $242,500
33
Robert Frank
Contact Sheet from the Americans
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $31,250
34
Walker Evans
Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner's House, July
Estimate $50,000 - 70,000
35
William Christenberry
The Underground Club, Greensboro, Alabama
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
36
Rudolf Koppitz
10 Photographs
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $20,000
37
Karl Struss
The Cliffs, Sorrento, Italy
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
38
Rudolf Koppitz
Nude Study
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $15,000
39
Heinrich Kuehn
Nude Study, Tyrol
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
40
Umbo (Otto Umbehr)
10 Photographs
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $11,875
41
Martine Franck
Children's Library Built by the Atelier de Montrouge, Clamart, France
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $6,875
42
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Children at the Puppet Theater II, Paris
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $10,000
43
Eugène Atget
Boutique d'articles pour hommes, 16 rue du Petit-Thouars
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $18,750
44
Ilse Bing
Renata and Her Sister
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,625
45
Lewis Wickes Hine
Tenement Product, Chicago
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $52,500
46
Leon Levinstein
Children in Window, New York
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,000
47
Ansel Adams
Trailer Camp Children, Richmond, California
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $6,875
48
Edward Steichen
The Blue Sky- Dana
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $35,000
49
Frederick Sommer
Livia
Estimate $35,000 - 55,000
Sold for $40,000
50
Ansel Adams
The Golden Gate Before the Bridge, San Francisco, California
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $47,500
51
Brett Weston
Dune, California
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $47,500
52
Emmet Gowin
Nancy, Twine and Blanket Construction, Danville, Virginia
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $2,750
53
Elliott Erwitt
Wyoming
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
54
Kenneth Josephson
Matthew
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,000
55
Robert Frank
Mary and Andrea on Third Avenue, NYC
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $12,500
56
Edward Steichen
Givili Andre (Vogue)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
57
Erwin Blumenfeld
Lisette, Paris
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
58
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Deux Belles de Nuit, Boulevard de Rochechouart, Montmartre
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $13,750
59
Robert Frank
Caereau, Wales
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $27,500
60
Bill Brandt
Northumbrian miner at his evening meal
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $7,500
61
August Sander
Berliner Kohlenträger
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $25,000
62
Alexander Rodchenko
The Yard in Summer
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
63
Josef Sudek
Street Scene, Prague
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
64
André Kertész
Washington Square, New York
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $22,500
65
Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $21,250
66
Berenice Abbott
Pennsylvania Station Interior, July 14
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $15,000
67
Edward Steichen
The Flatiron-Evening
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $23,750
68
Tom Baril
Selected Images
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $11,875
69
Lisette Model
Reflections, New York
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
70
Lee Friedlander
Mount Rushmore, South Dakota
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,250
71
Lee Friedlander
New York City
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $8,750
72
Harry Callahan
Eleanor in the Attic
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,000
73
Roy DeCarava
Man in Window
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $8,750
74
Yousuf Karsh
Le Corbusier
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $2,500
75
Joel Sternfeld
A Woman Working at the Supreme Bean, Port Orchard, Washington, August
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,000
76
Richard Misrach
Lake Mead #1, Nevada
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $11,250
77
Joel Sternfeld
After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California, July
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $6,875
78
Martin Parr
The Last Resort (New Brighton, Merseyside)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,125
79
Helen Levitt
Untitled (Laundry Bags and Kids)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $6,250
80
Mary Ellen Mark
Crying Street Girl, Olympia Café, Falkland Road, Bombay, India
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $3,250
81
Bruce Davidson
Untitled, Subway, New York
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $12,500
82
Bruce Davidson
East 100th Street
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $4,375
83
Arthur Leipzig
Ideal Laundry
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,000
84
Weegee (Arthur Fellig)
Girls, Palace Theater, NY
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,000
85
Louis Faurer
Accident, New York, N.Y.
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,250
86
Joseph Szabo
Priscilla
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $4,750
87
David Goldblatt
Picnic at Hartebeespoort Dam on New Year's Day
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,250
88
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Alicante, Spain
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $8,750
89
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Untitled (Vegetable Market, Mexico)
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
90
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Untitled (Women and Girls, Mexico)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,000
91
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
El ensueño (Daydreaming), Mexico
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $18,750
92
Nickolas Muray
Frida painting 'The Two Fridas'
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $4,375
93
Luis González Palma
Time Out
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,000
94
Yasumasa Morimura
An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
95
Hiroshi Sugimoto
North Atlantic Ocean, Martha's Vineyard
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $52,500
96
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Devonian Period
Estimate $15,000 - 20,000
Sold for $28,750
97
Matthew Pillsbury
Crystal Palace, Hunterian Museum, London, September 25
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,125
98
Masao Yamamoto
Selected Images from a Box of Ku and Nakazora
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $18,750
99
Michael Kenna
Selected Images
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $7,500
100
Lynn Davis
Iceberg
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $10,625
101
Lynn Davis
Red Pyramid, Dashur, Cairo, Egypt
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $20,000
102
Robert Mapplethorpe
Ken Moody
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $10,625
103
Herb Ritts
Tatjana, Veiled Head, Tight View, Joshua Tree
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $22,500
104
Garry Winogrand
Beverly Hilton, Los Angeles, CA
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $11,875
105
Helmut Newton
Untitled
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $12,500
106
Gerard Petrus Fieret
Untitled
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,000
107
Nobuyoshi Araki
Untitled
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $6,875
108
Nobuyoshi Araki
Untitled
Estimate $3,000 - 4,000
Sold for $11,250
109
Mona Kuhn
Refractions
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $11,250
110
Marilyn Minter
Barbed
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $11,875
111
Adam Fuss
Untitled from My Ghost
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $8,750
112
Christopher Bucklow
Guest 12:03 pm, 7 August
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,500
113
Yuki Onodera
Sophie & Eva from Transvest
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $11,875
114
Sally Mann
Untitled from Deep South
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $26,250
115
Sally Mann
Naptime
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $8,750
116
Sally Mann
Shiva at Whistle Creek
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $35,000
117
Roger Ballen
Twirling Wires
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $10,625
118
Joel-Peter Witkin
Face of a Woman, Marseilles
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $12,500
119
Joel-Peter Witkin
Laokoön, New Mexico
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $5,000
120
Abelardo Morell
Detail of Book Damaged by Water
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $13,750
121
Abelardo Morell
Camera obscura image of the Brooklyn Bridge in bedroom
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,000
122
Abelardo Morell
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $5,000
123
Robert ParkeHarrison
Selected Images
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $17,500
124
Doug Starn and Mike Starn
Structure of Thought #6
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $20,000
125
Robert ParkeHarrison
Forestbed
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $18,750
126
Hong Lei
Speak, Memory
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
127
Thomas Demand
Glass (Glas), I + II
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $47,500
128
Walead Beshty
Three Color Curl (CMY: Irvine, California, August 24th)
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $18,750
129
Walead Beshty
Filene's, The Danbury Mall, Danbury, CT from The Phenomenology of Shopping
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,000
130
Ryan McGinley
Whirlwind
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $15,000
131
Nikki S. Lee
The Skateboard Project #15
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,000
132
Dash Snow
Untitled
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $25,000
133
Bill Henson
Untitled
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
134
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Head #04
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
135
Seydou Keïta
Untitled #110
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,250
136
Viviane Sassen
Juice from Parasomnia
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,250
137
Pieter Hugo
Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Ogere-Remo, Nigeria from 'Gadawan Kura' - The Hyena Men II
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $40,000
138
Pieter Hugo
Mohamed Bah, Monrovia, Liberia from Boy Scouts, Monrovia, Liberia
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $10,625
139
Malick Sidibé
Les jeunes bergers Peulhs
Estimate $2,500 - 3,500
Sold for $2,500
140
Mickalene Thomas
Afro Goddess Ex Lover's Friend
Estimate $8,000 - 10,000
Sold for $23,750
141
Lalla Essaydi
Les Femmes du Maroc: Kenza
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $56,250
142
Vik Muniz
Fright from Pictures of Chocolate
Estimate $30,000 - 40,000
143
Sandy Skoglund
Raining Popcorn
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $8,750
144
Vik Muniz
12,000 Yards (Etretat, after Courbet) from Pictures of Thread
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $9,375
145
Loretta Lux
The Blue Dress
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $13,750
146
William Wegman
Flying Dumbo
Estimate $1,500 - 2,000
Sold for $1,625
147
Loretta Lux
The Irish Girls
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $6,875
148
Vee Speers
Untitled #4 from The Birthday Party
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,000
149
Vee Speers
Untitled #27 from The Birthday Party
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
150
Tina Barney
The Watch
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $10,000
151
Evelyn Hofer
Villa Medici, Hall
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $6,875
152
Julie Blackmon
Gum
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $8,750
153
Gregory Crewdson
Untitled from Twilight
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $11,875
154
Todd Hido
Untitled #2840, 2001 and Untitled #3212-B
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $4,375
155
Alec Soth
A-1 Motel
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $21,250
156
This lot is no longer available.
157
Erwin Olaf
Sarah from Grief
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
158
Alex Prager
Annie
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $30,000
159
Alex Prager
Wendy from Week-End
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $21,875
160
Paolo Ventura
War Souvenir #43
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
161
Paolo Ventura
The Funeral of the Anarchist
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,125
162
Tracey Moffatt
Something More #1
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $30,000
163
Edward Burtynsky
Dam #1, Yangtze River, China
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $6,250
164
Chris Jordan
Circuit Boards #2, New Orleans
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $5,000
165
Robert Polidori
Control Room, Reactor 4, Chernobyl
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $22,500

Important Photographs from the Collection of...

2 & 3 April 2013 New York

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Joel-Peter Witkin

Laokoön, New Mexico

Important Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana

2 & 3 April 2013
New York