Following up on its New York Photographs sale last week, Bonhams has another Photographs auction scheduled for London next week. The sale includes mostly lower end material, with a solid helping of British photography. Overall, there are a total of 150 lots on offer, with a Total High Estimate of £477000.
Here’s the statistical breakdown:
Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including £5000): 130
Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of Low lots): £285000
Total Mid Lots (high estimate between £5000 and £25000): 19
Total Mid Estimate: £162000
Total High Lots (high estimate above £25000): 1
Total High Estimate: £30000
The top lot by High estimate is lot 43, Frantisek Drtikol, Nude Study, 1927, at £25000-30000. (Image at right, top, via Bonhams.)
Here is the list of the photographers who are represented by four or more lots in the sale (with the number of lots in parentheses):
Willy Ronis (15)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (6)
Wolfgang Suschitzky (5)
Mario Giacomelli (4)
Horst P. Horst (4)
Angus McBean (4)
Sebastião Salgado (4)
Jürgen Schadenberg (4)
November 16th
London W1S 1SR