Auction Preview: Photographs, May 8, 2013 @Phillips London

The spring auction season in London gets going next week, starting with Phillips’ various owner Photographs sale Wednesday. It’s a broad, primarily mid-range sale, with few major anchor pieces or unexpected treasures. Overall, there are a total of 123 lots of photography available in the sale, with a Total High Estimate of £1676500.

Here’s the statistical breakdown:

Preview Statistics
Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including £5000) 49
Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of low lots) £182500
Total Mid Lots (high estimate between £5000 and £25000) 59
Total Mid Estimate £714000
Total High Lots (high estimate above £25000) 15
Total High Estimate £780000

The top photography lot by High estimate is lot 32, Nobuyoshi Araki, 77 works, n.d., estimated at £100000-120000. (Image at right, top, via Phillips.)

Here is the short list of the photographers who are represented by four or more lots in the sale (with the number of lots in parentheses):

Robert Mapplethorpe (7)

Henri Cartier-Bresson (4)

Horst P. Horst (4)

David LaChapelle (4)

Other lots of interest include lot 39, Germaine Krull, Selected images, 1923-1927, estimated at £10000-15000 (image at right, middle), and lot 97, Adam Fuss, Untitled, 2006, estimated at £15000-20000 (image at right, bottom, both via Phillips).

The complete lot by lot catalog can be found here.

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