Literature
Sebastião Salgado: An Uncertain Grace, New York: Aperture, 1990, p. 17
Sebastião Salgado: Workers, Archaeology of the Industrial Age, London: Phaidon, 1993, p. 314
S. Salgado et al., Gold, Cologne: Taschen, 2019, p. 37

78

Sebastião Salgado

Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil

1986
Gelatin silver print, mounted, printed later.
Image: 135 x 92 cm (53 1/8 x 36 1/4 in.)
Frame: 145 x 102 cm (57 1/8 x 40 1/8 in.)
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on a label affixed to the reverse of the mount.

Estimate
£15,000 - 20,000 ♠

Sold for £13,860

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London Auction 23 November 2021

1
Irving Penn
Station Sweeper, New York
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 †
Sold for £100,800
2
Irving Penn
Tinker, London
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 †
Sold for £63,000
3
Irving Penn
Engine Driver, London
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 †
Sold for £50,400
4
Irving Penn
Hunter, New York
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 †
Sold for £81,900
5
Irving Penn
Rockette, New York
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 †
Sold for £88,200
6
Irving Penn
Locomotive Fireman, London
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 †
Sold for £69,300
7
Irving Penn
Iceman, New York
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 †
Sold for £107,100
8
Irving Penn
House Painter (B), London
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 †
Sold for £107,100
9
Irving Penn
Barber, New York
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 †
Sold for £138,600
10
Irving Penn
Milkman (A), New York
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 †
Sold for £151,200
11
Hans Bellmer
Les Jeux de la poupée
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000 ‡♠
12
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, Paris
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
Sold for £15,120
13
Horst P. Horst
Mainbocher Corset, Paris
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £10,710
14
Irving Penn
Girl behind glass (Jean Patchett), New York
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000
Sold for £50,400
15
Irving Penn
Three Rissani Women with Bread
Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 ‡
Sold for £37,800
16
Ansel Adams
Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park
Estimate £35,000 - 55,000 ‡
Sold for £37,800
17
Robert Frank
Hoboken, New Jersey
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £12,600
18
Saul Leiter
Lanesville
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £8,820
19
Saul Leiter
Red Umbrella
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £8,190
20
Guy Bourdin
French Vogue, March 1972
Estimate £30,000 - 40,000 ♠
Sold for £25,200
21
Helmut Newton
Mercedes, Paris
Estimate £100,000 - 150,000 †
Sold for £126,000
22
Yves Klein, Harry Shunk and János Kender
Saut dans le Vide [Leap Into the Void], Paris
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 ‡♠
Sold for £69,300
23
David Goldblatt
Boss Boy, Randfontein Estates Goldmine
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
Sold for £15,120
24
Ishiuchi Miyako
Apartment #13
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000
Sold for £12,600
25
Ole Marius Joergensen
The Brave One from No. Superhero
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
Sold for £12,600
26
Eiji Ohashi
Roadside Lights #096
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
Sold for £23,940
27
Bastiaan Woudt
Disk, Alkmaar
Estimate £18,000 - 22,000 ‡♠
Sold for £60,480
28
Amanda Means
Water Glass 3, (Variant 2)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡
Sold for £15,120
29
Klea McKenna
Portrait (Hybrid 1) from How Forests Think
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £7,560
30
Sohei Nishino
Diorama Map Jerusalem
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000
Sold for £25,200
31
Vik Muniz
Morning on the Seine, near Giverny, after Monet from Pictures of Pigment
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ‡
Sold for £31,500
32
Gregory Crewdson
Untitled
Estimate £15,000 - 25,000 ‡
Sold for £40,320
33
Candida Höfer
Palazzo Corsini Firenze I
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡♠
Sold for £75,600
34
Nobuyoshi Araki
Tokyo Comedy
Estimate £40,000 - 60,000 ‡
Sold for £50,400
35
Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #61
Estimate £50,000 - 70,000
Sold for £60,480
36
Helmut Newton
Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord-Pinus, Arles, France
Estimate £250,000 - 350,000 ‡
Sold for £441,000
37
Guy Bourdin
Charles Jourdan, Spring 1978
Estimate £30,000 - 40,000 ♠
38
Guy Bourdin
French Vogue, May 1978
Estimate £15,000 - 25,000 ♠
39
Bernd and Hilla Becher
Spherical Gas Tank, Wesseling, Near Cologne, Germany
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
Sold for £17,640
40
Luigi Ghirri
Amsterdam, MappaMondo from Still Life
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
Sold for £12,600
41
Ishiuchi Miyako
絶唱、横須賀ストーリー#98 坂本町 Yokosuka Story #98 Sakamoto-chō
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
Sold for £22,680
42
Ishiuchi Miyako
絶唱、横須賀ストーリー#28 Yokosuka Story #28
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
Sold for £18,900
43
Francesca Woodman
Polka Dots no. 5, Providence, Rhode Island
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
44
Cindy Sherman
Untitled (Artist in her Studio)
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £4,410
45
Alex Prager
June
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000
Sold for £8,820
46
Wolfgang Tillmans
Kneeling nude
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £18,900
47
Wolfgang Tillmans
Eclipse II - 23 A
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £6,930
48
Wolfgang Tillmans
untitled (jam)
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £10,710
49
Wolfgang Tillmans
studio light
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £5,670
50
Wolfgang Tillmans
Alex & Lutz am Strand
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £15,120
51
Alec Soth
Patrick, Palm Sunday, Baton Rouge, LA
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000
52
Alec Soth
Fort Jefferson Memorial Cross, Wickliffe, Kentucky
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000
Sold for £10,080
53
Walead Beshty
Three Color Curl (CMY): Irvine, California, August 19th 2008, Fuji Crystal Archive Type C
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ♠
Sold for £6,930
54
Walead Beshty
2 Sided Mirrored Pair A & B, Los Angeles, November 23rd
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠
Sold for £11,970
55
Wolfgang Tillmans
Zero Gravity VI
Estimate £20,000 - 30,000 ‡♠
Sold for £35,280
56
Wolfgang Tillmans
Silver 61 (11 11 00)
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡♠
Sold for £11,970
57
Wolfgang Tillmans
paper drop (reversed)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠
Sold for £18,900
58
David LaChapelle
Deluge, Los Angeles
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000
Sold for £20,160
59
Wim Wenders
Lake Galilee Before Sunrise
Estimate £25,000 - 35,000 ‡♠
60
Paolo Ventura
Bagno Autunnale #2 from Collage
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
Sold for £13,860
61
Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard
The Giant Hill from How to Hunt
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ♠
Sold for £10,710
62
Jeff Bark
Untitled (Dusk)
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £3,276
63No Reserve
Anthony Goicolea
Morning Sleep from Kidnap
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •‡
Sold for £1,890
64No Reserve
Anthony Goicolea
Under III from Underwater
Estimate £800 - 1,200 •‡
Sold for £504
65
Nobuyoshi Araki
2THESKY, my Ender
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
66No Reserve
Daidō Moriyama
Poster (Nakano)
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •
Sold for £2,772
67No Reserve
Eikoh Hosoe
Ordeal by Roses #32
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •‡
Sold for £4,788
68No Reserve
Sam Haskins
November Girl, On Bed
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 •
Sold for £2,772
69No Reserve
Sally Soames
Andy Warhol at his Factory in New York
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •♠
Sold for £2,394
70
Terry O'Neill
Brigitte Bardot on the set of 'Shalako', Deauville
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £5,670
71
Terry O'Neill
Faye Dunaway, Hollywood
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠
Sold for £15,120
72
Flip Schulke
Ali Underwater
Estimate £9,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £15,120
73
Anton Corbijn
Kate Moss, New York
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ‡♠
Sold for £18,900
74
Chris Levine
She's Light (Laser 3)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ♠†
Sold for £10,080
75No Reserve
Peter Lindbergh
Milla Jovovich, Paris
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 •‡♠
Sold for £1,890
76No Reserve
Gavin Bond
Pom Poms from Backstage: Volume I
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 •‡♠
Sold for £8,190
77
Sebastião Salgado
Brazil
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ‡♠
Sold for £3,780
78
Sebastião Salgado
Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ♠
Sold for £13,860
79
Nick Brandt
Lion Before Storm V, Maasai Mara
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
Sold for £11,340
80
Nick Brandt
Elephant on Bare Earth, Amboseli
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
Sold for £13,860
81
Nick Brandt
Lioness in Dark Foliage, Serengeti
Estimate £7,500 - 9,500 ♠
Sold for £9,450
82
Nick Brandt
Elephant Herds Crossing Lake Bed in Sun, Amboseli
Estimate £6,500 - 8,500 ♠
Sold for £11,340
83
Nick Brandt
Storks in Treetops, Maasai Mara
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £3,780
84No Reserve
Don McCullin
Still Life
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •♠
Sold for £5,670
85
Josef Koudelka
The Black Triangle, Czechoslovakia
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ‡♠
Sold for £5,040
86
Joe Rosenthal
Flag Raising at Iwo Jima
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £5,040
87
Margaret Bourke-White
Aerial View Of Single Family Houses, Muncie, Indiana
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
88
Stephen Shore
Beverly Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, California, June 21
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
Sold for £9,450
89No Reserve
Harry Callahan
Cape Cod
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •
Sold for £1,512
90
Elliott Erwitt
Photographs
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
Sold for £8,190
91
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Gestapo informer recognized by a woman she had denounced, Transit Camp, Dessau, Germany
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡♠
Sold for £6,300
92No Reserve
Bill Brandt
Nude, Micheldever, Hampshire
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •♠
Sold for £2,016
93No Reserve
Charles Jones
Horseradish
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •♠
Sold for £1,575
94No Reserve
Charles Jones
Mendel Tulips
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 •♠
Sold for £2,520
95
Lynsey Addario
Darfur Sandstorm
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £2,520
96
Jonas Bendiksen
Crashed rocket ship and butterflies, #2. Altai Territory, Russia
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £11,340
97
Lorenzo Meloni
Ouagadougou Conference Center, Sirte, Libya
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £6,300
98
Matt Black
Birds, Tulare, California from American Geography
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £6,300
99
Nanna Heitmann
Horse Race from Hiding from Baba Yaga
Estimate £3,000 - 5,000 ♠
Sold for £4,410
100
Simon Roberts
Clevedon Pier #B, Somerset from Pierdom
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ♠
Sold for £6,930
101
Edward Burtynsky
Thjorsá River #1, Southern Region, Iceland
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000
Sold for £30,240
102
Richard Mosse
Nineteenth Century Man from Infra
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠
Sold for £10,080
103
Sebastião Salgado
Brazil
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ♠
Sold for £5,292
104
Rankin
Bjork's Eye (Nanu Nanu, Dazed & Confused)
Estimate £8,000 - 12,000 ♠
Sold for £6,300
105
Nadav Kander
The Doctor, Chernobyl
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £18,900
106
Damon Winter
Medivac, Afghanistan
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000
Sold for £5,040
107
Don McCullin
The Bogside, Derry
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £10,080
108
Stuart Franklin
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 ♠
Sold for £8,190
109
Paolo Pellegrin
Civilians sift through the rubble looking for survivors following an Israeli air raid. Beirut, Lebanon from Double Blind
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £6,048
110
Tim Flach
Spirit from More Than Human
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000 ♠
Sold for £1,890
111
Vasantha Yogananthan
Cricket Match from A Myth of Two Souls
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 ♠
Sold for £2,016
112
Eugene Richards
Grandmother, Brooklyn, New York
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £5,670
113
Donna Ferrato
Diamond shouting at his father from Living with the Enemy
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000
Sold for £2,268
114
David Chancellor
Huntress with Buck from Hunters
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 ♠
Sold for £3,780
115
Lucas Foglia
Maddie with Water Lilies, North Carolina from Human Nature
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500
Sold for £3,780
116
Ivor Prickett
Slavica and Nikola, Croatia from Returning Home
Estimate £1,000 - 2,000 ♠
Sold for £1,260

Photographs

London Auction 23 November 2021

Literature

78

Sebastião Salgado

Serra Pelada, Gold Mine, Brazil

Photographs