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One of the many public service announcements brought to by the
friendly folks
at Seewald's art gallery. Don't forget to help an artist out with a
small, or large donation: donation f o r m.
Photographic Auction Action.
From the most recent to older results.
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$3,666,500
Jeff Wall, Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a
Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) (1992) $3,666,500
May 8, 2012, Christie's New York
Andreas Gursky, Rhein II (1999), $4,338,500,
November 8, 2011, Christie's New York.
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Andreas Gursky, Rhein II (1999),
$4,338,500.00
About the image
"The Rhine II was produced in an edition of six; The Tate museum owns the
fifth in the series. This large colour photograph depicts a stretch of the river
Rhine outside Düsseldorf. The image is immediately legible as a view of a
straight stretch of water, but it is also an abstract configuration of
horizontal bands of colour of varying widths. The horizon line bisects the
picture almost exactly in the middle. Above it the overcast sky is a blue-grey.
In the bottom half of the image, the river is a glassy, unbroken band between
green stripes of grass. At the bottom of the picture in the immediate foreground
is a narrow path. Below it is another thin band of manicured green grass.
Gursky works with
a medium format camera, taking pictures which he then scans into a computer
where he can manipulate them. His aim in using digital technology is not to
create fictions but rather to heighten the image of something that exists in the
world. He has described the genesis of this work, saying, ‘there is a particular
place with a view over the Rhine which has somehow always fascinated me, but it
didn’t suffice for a picture as it basically constituted only part of a picture.
I carried this idea for a picture around with me for a year and a half and
thought about whether I ought perhaps to change my viewpoint ... In the end I
decided to digitalise the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me’
(quoted in Annelie Lütgens, ‘Shrines and Ornaments: A Look into the Display
Cabinet’, Andreas Gursky: Fotografien 1994-1998, p.xvi).
Gursky digitally
erased buildings on the far side of the river from his picture. This
manipulation enhances the image visually, giving it more formal coherence.
Rather than the sense of a specific place, the picture conveys an almost
Platonic ideal of a body of water traversing as landscape. Gursky talks about
this image in terms of its contemporaneity, saying, ‘I wasn’t interested in an
unusual, possibly picturesque view of the Rhine, but in the most contemporary
possible view of it. Paradoxically, this view of the Rhine cannot be obtained
in situ; a fictitious construction was required to provide an accurate image
of a modern river’ (quoted in ‘... I generally let things develop slowly’,
Andreas Gursky: Fotografien 1994-1998, p.ix).
The Rhine II
represents a tendency in Gursky’s work towards abstraction. Throughout his
career he has periodically made images whose formal and conceptual simplicity
place them closer to the tradition of abstract art. Untitled I, 1993 is a
close-up of an industrial carpet that recalls a grey monochrome painting. The
grid-like ceiling depicted in Brasília, General Assembly I, 1994 has
affinities with minimal objects. The Rhine II shares with these earlier
photographs an emphasis on textures; the distinctions between the shimmering
gloss of the river, the smudged softness of the clouds, the lush carpet of the
verges and the hard matte path lend the photograph sensual contrast. ..."
Article continued here, on the Tate's website:
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gursky-the-rhine-ii-p78372/text-summary ____________________________
June
Unknown photographer, Billy the Kid (1879–80), tintype portrait,
$2,300,000, June 2011,
Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction.
Billy the Kid, unknown photograher, sold for
$2,300,000
May
Cindy Sherman Print Sells For
$3.89 Million
At Auction, The Highest Ever For A Photograph
until November when the Gursky image, above,
topped it.
24 x 48 in. (61 x 121.9 cm.)
This work is number ten from an edition of ten
Executed in 1981.
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Cindy Sherman's Untitled #96 /
Self-portraits.
$3.89 Million
2010
November
Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #153," from 1985, sold for
$2,700,000
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Cindy Sherman's "Untitled #153,"
$2,700,000
Dmitry Medvedev, Tobolsk Kremlin (2009),
$1,750,000, January 2010, Christmas
Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.
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Dmitry Medvedev, Tobolsk Kremlin (2009),
$1,750,000
Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants (1955), $1,151,976, November 2010,
Christie's Paris auction.
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Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants (1955)
$1,151,976,
Eugène Atget, Joueur d'Orgue,
(1898–1899), $686,500, April 2010, Christie's New York auction
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Eugène Atget, Joueur d'Orgue,
$686,500
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$3,765,276
Gilbert & George To Her Majesty (1973)
$3,765,276 June 30, 2008 Christie's London
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Edward Weston,
$1,609,000
This 1925 nude – Won by Peter MacGill of the Pace-MacGill
Gallery.
The most a Weston has ever sold for, to date, April of 2008- Sotheby’s auction.
This Bert Stern image
"The Last Sitting", one of the last pictures
of Monroe before her death ,
sold for
$146,500
shattering the $63,000 mark set in 1994.
Marilyn Monroe: Photo auction sets record in New York
An old photograph of Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern and a photograph by Helmut
Newton of four women naked and then dressed sold for record prices on
Wednesday, Christie's auction house said.
The Newton photo "Sie Kommen, (Naked and
Dressed), Paris, 1981"
sold for $662,500,
smashing the previous 2007 record for the photographer of $380,725, while the
Stern image "The Last Sitting", one of the last pictures of Monroe before her
death,
sold for $146,500, shattering the $63,000 mark set in 1994.
The entire
Constantiner Collection fetched $7.7 million, the highest total for
a single owner dedicated photographs sale, Christie's said. Both of these
photos were part of the Constantiner Collection, which included the
largest-ever grouping of Monroe photos to come to market, more than 100 in
all.
"The superb results achieved for this collection demonstrate the potential of
works bought with true passion and considerable connoisseurship to perform
magnificently even in the present uncertain economic climate," said Philippe
Garner, Christie's international head of photographs, in a statement.
"The results also confirm the central position that Helmut Newton has rightly
been accorded as a master photographer of the 20th century, and, of course,
Marilyn Monroe's magical appeal has proven to be truly timeless," he said.
2007
Richard Prince
reclaimed the record for most expensive
photo sold at auction, when a print of his sold at
Sotheby's
in New York for
$3,401,000
The price narrowly exceeded the previous record of $3.34 million
for an Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sotheby's in London in February
2007.
The record-breaking Prince image (up to 2007) is from his untitled cowboy series –
in which Prince photographed sections of Marlboro cigarette ads
and enlarged the photos to an enormous size. The photo sold
at Sotheby's measures 100 by 66 inches and was one of an
edition of two plus one artist's proof. It is dated 2001-02.
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Andreas Gursky diptych sold at Sotheby's for
$3,340,000
in London in February 2007.
About Gursky
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Another Gursky store image.
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Edward Weston's 1927 Nautilus Shell went for a whopping
$1,105,000
at Sotheby's in October of '07.
A report from that auction, blow by blow:
http://www.iphotocentral.com/news/article_view.php/144/135/794
NOTE: An amazing $3.7 million came from just 24
photographs by Edward Weston
Auction Action 2005 - 2006
“The Pond-Moonlight,” by Edward Steichen,
taken on Long Island in 1904, sold for
$2,928,000
A 1904 Edward Steichen photo of a moonlit pond has
shattered
the record for the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction.
The print, "The Pond-Moonlight," went for $2,928,000 at Sotheby's
in New York, more than doubling the previous record. (The old record,
$1,248,000, was set Nov. 8 at Christie's for an untitled photograph
of a Marlboro cigarette ad by contemporary
art photographer Richard Prince) is below.
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe-Hands, circa 1919.
Gelatin silver print, 9-7/16 x 7-1/2 inches.
Courtesy of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
$1,472,000
In Feb. of 2006, two photographs of the artist
Georgia
O'Keeffe (1887-1986),
taken by
Alfred Stieglitz, her husband
(Alfred
Stieglitz, American, 1864-1946), also beat the
highest
amount ever paid for a single photo ($1,248,000- see 'Cowboy' immediately
below).
A photograph of her hands sold for $1,472,000, and a
portrait of her nude sold
for $1,360,000, at Sotheby's in February of 2006.
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The record for a photograph
in 2005 sold at auction,
$1,248,000
was set in November of 2005
by the selling of Richard Prince's “Untitled (Cowboy)”
Article on the first single photo to go over 1 million.
Spring Auction Action-
2004:
Sotheby's
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"Identical Twins"
by Diane Arbus
sold for
$478,400
"Agassiz Rock and the Yosemite Falls, from Union Point"
by Carleton Watkins sold
$310,400
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"Negro Barbershop Interior, Atlanta"
by Walker Evans
sold for
$198,400
(This exact image sold only
two years earlier for
$98,600!)
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"Pepper No. 30"
by Edward Weston sold for
$130,700
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"Bandolier, Corn and Guitar"
by Tina Modotti sold
for
$120,000
Christie's
"Shadows and Reflections, Venice"
by Alvin Langdon
Coburn sold for
$365,900
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"Nude with a Gun, Villa d'Este, Como"
by Helmut Newton
sold for
$181,100
Auction Action in 2002/2003
Christie's
Andreas Gursky ... $292,000.
Richard Prince
(untitled- Sunglasses, straw & soda) ... $94,000
Sotheby's
Cindy Sherman - untitled #209, (color self portrait
from 1989)...$269,000
Cindy Sherman - untitled #94 (from 1982) ... $259,000
Thomas Struth's "Pantheon, Rome,"... $270,000
Private collector action:
Man Ray "Glass Tears"... substantially more than a million dollars, setting a
new world record at that time.
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In 2000, the Man Ray photo "Glass Tears" sold for a
price
widely thought to be
$1,250,000
according to Alex Novak,
a photo art dealer who edits the E-Photo Newsletter.
That would
have been the first image to break
the one million dollar mark in the
photographic art industry.
List of top 25 most
expensive auctioned
Per wikipedia
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And so where does
Michael Seewald fit into the
scheme of things in these markets?
Good question. Actually, due to these photos
going for some serious cash, he has been able to raise his prices for his rare
items too. And his early works are just a rare, if not more, they are now up to
$100,000, and climbing.
Here are two of his highest, with either one going to $500,000 after their next
sale, and then $1Million, if not more, for the final #10 of 10 sale:
Pianoman, Shanghai, China, '87 The Three
Graces, Xian, China, '87
NOTE: Two of Michael Seewald's
best sellers, and VERY RARE LIMITED EDITION OF ONLY 10
are now offered on eBay, and thru our Del
Mar Gallery. The Three Graces, Xian, China '87 and Pianoman,
Shanghai, China, '87, and since they are limited to only 10 of one size only,
and seven of the ten have sold of each,
are both offered at ONLY $100,000!
Go to
Seewald China images/ prices
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A couple of interesting quotes about auctions
by Jerry Saltz from his Village Voice
article
Hammered on May 26th, 2005
Complete article here:
http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0522,saltz,64442,13.html
...Contemporary art auctions are bizarre combinations of slave market,
trading floor, theater, and brothel. They are rarefied entertainments where
speculation, spin, and trophy hunting merge as an insular caste enacts a highly
structured ritual in which the codes of consumption and peerage are manipulated
in plain sight. Everyone says auctions are about "quality." In fact, auctions
are altars to the disconnect between the inner life of art and the outer life of
consumption, places where artists are cut off from their art. Auctions have
nothing to do with quality. At auctions new values are assigned and desire is
fetishized. Consumption becomes a sort of sacrament, art plays the role of
sacrificial lamb, and the Ponzi scheme that surrounds it all rolls on....
...Auctions are like stripteases, relying on the audience
being enticed by what’s out of reach...
...The greed, stupidity, and cupidity of many of the people who buy and
sell their art at auctions has created what I call the "parallel market":
artists whose auction prices far exceed what their work costs in
galleries. Christie's international co-head of post-war contemporary art,
Amy Cappellazzo, ruefully admits, "Some people prefer to spend $500,000 at
auction on something they could buy privately for $50,000." She calls
these people "traders." Auction houses rely on the fact that many of their
buyers either don't know that much about art, that they'll buy almost
anything if it has the right name on it, or that they don't care. So much
for "quality." ...
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We are interested is selling any photographic
art you
may have, on consignment.
Please e mail us with any questions.
We would be especially interested is consigning art
from the following artists:
Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Herb Ritts, Walker Evans, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman,
Thomas Struth, Brett Weston, Duane Michals, Leonard Misonne, Lisette Model, Kurt w.
Baasch, Tom Baril, howard
d. beach, wright Morris, william Mortenson, michael Mulno, Nickolas Muray,
Eadweard Muybridge, Olivia Parker, Howard D. Beach, Robert Officer, Michael
Berman, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Karl Blossfeldt, Meyer, Jr., P.H. Emerson,
Chansonetta Emmons, J.C. Fardon, Louis Fleckenstein, Annette Fournet, Paul
Fuscoarker, Norman Parkinson, John Pfahl, Eliot Porter, Nancy Rexroth, Albert G.
Richards, F. A. Rinehart, Willy Ronis, Phillip Scholtz Ritterman, D.J. Ruzicka,
Charles T. Scowen, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Camille Solyagua, Eduard J.
Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Sturr, Jules Szanton, Max Thorek, George Tice,
Bill Timmerman, Jerry Uelsmann, Burk Uzzle, Cheryl van Hooven, Melissa Inez Walker,
Bradford washburn, Alex Webb, Jack Welpott,
Jo Whaley, Minor White, Marion post wolcott, Arnols Genthe, Mario Giacomellit,
Edward Weston, Ralph Gibson, Henry b. Goodwin, Johan Hagemeyer, William F.
Happich, Declan Haun, Beatrice Helg, Carol Henry, chip hooper, George Hurrell,
Don James, Arthur kales, yousuf karsh, Michael Kenna, Rudolf Kippitz, Heinrich
Kuehn, Clarence John Laughlin, Wellington Lee, George Platt Lynes, Danny Lyon,
David Malin, Aubrey Bodine, Bill Brandt, Michael Seewald, Alolphe Braun, Kate
Breakey, Marilyn Bridges, Anne Brigman, Wynn Bullock, Jerry Burchfield,
Ruth Bernhard, (we had a show of Ruth's work back in 1998,
where she came down and attended the opening), Christopher Burkett, Jon Burris,
Harry Callahan, Camera Work Magazines, Julia Margaret Cameron, Paul Capronigro,
Keith Carter, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walter Chappell, Alvin Langdon Coburn, J.
Walter Collinge, John Collins, Larry Colwel,
Stephan Couturier, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Curtis Sheriff,
William Dassonville, and Bruce Davidson
Thanks,
Valerie Seewald
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reset 10.'08
Duane Michals, leonard misonne, lisette model, kurt w. baasch, tom baril, howard
d. beach, wright morris, william mortensen, michael mulno, nickolas muray,
eadweard muybridge, olivia Parker, Howard D. Beach, Robert Officer, Michael
Berman, jayne hinds bidaut, Karl Blossfeldt, meyer, Jr., p.h. emerson,
Chansonetta Emmons, j.c. fardon, Louis Fleckenstein, annette fournet, paul
fuscoarker, norman parkinson, john pfahl, eliot porter, nancy rexroth, Albert G.
Richards, F. A. Rinehart, Willy Ronis, phillip scholtz ritterman, d.j. ruzicka,
charles t. scowen, aaron siskind, w. eugene smith, camille solyagua, Eduard J.
Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, edward sturr, Jules Szanton, max thorek, george tice,
bill timmerman, jerry uelsmann, burk uzzle, cheryl van hooven, melissa inez
walker, bradford washburn, alex webb, jack welpott, brett weston, edward weston,
jo whaley minor white, marion post wolcott, arnols genthe, mario giacomellit,
Edward Weston, ralph gibson, henry b. goodwin, Johan Hagemeyer, william f.
happich, declan haun, beatrice helg, carol henry, chip hooper, George Hurrell,
don james, arthur kales, yousuf karsh, michael kenna, rudolf kippitz, heinrich
kuehn, clarence john laughlin, welliington lee, george platt lynes, danny lyon,
david malin, aubrey bodine, bill brandt, michael seewald, alolphe braun, kate
breakey, marilyn bridges, anne brigman, wynn bullock, jerry burchfield, ruth
bernhard, christopher burkett, Jon Burris, harry callahan, camera work, julia
margaret cameron, paul capronigro, keith carter, henri cartier-bresson, walter
chappell, alvin langdon coburn, j. walter collinge, john collins, larry colwel,
stephan couturier, Imogen Cunningham, edward curtis, edward curtis sheriff,
william dassonville, bruce davidson, ansel adams,
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