Christie’s gets the Paris Photo auction season going later this week a long string of Eugène Atget prints drawn from the collection of the Fauvist painter André Derain. The selections include a wide variety of Atget’s most notable subject matter (street traders, trees, gardens, old city sidewalk views etc.), including several storefront windows tinged with found Surrealism. The sale also includes a rare calotype album by Amélie Guillot-Saguez, one of the first female photographers in France. Overall, there are a total of 123 lots on offer in this sale, with a Total High Estimate of €3284000.
Here’s the statistical breakdown:
| Preview Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including €7500) | 43 |
| Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of low lots) | €234000 |
| Total Mid Lots (high estimate between €7500 and €35000) | 56 |
| Total Mid Estimate | €955000 |
| Total High Lots (high estimate above €35000) | 24 |
| Total High Estimate | €2095000 |
The top lot by High estimate is lot 66, Amélie Guillot-Saguez, Rome (album including 37 plates), 1847, estimated at €200000-300000 (image above via Christie’s).
Here’s the complete list of photographers with three or more lots in the sale, along with the number of lots on offer:
| Multiple Lots For Sale | |
|---|---|
| Eugène Atget | 47 |
| Irving Penn | 13 |
| Henri Cartier-Bresson | 12 |
| Hiroshi Sugimoto | 5 |
| Diane Arbus | 3 |
| Julia Margaret Cameron | 3 |
| Thomas Struth | 3 |
Other lots of interest include (images above, via Christie’s):
Lot 7, Eugène Atget, Coiffeur, Avenue de l’Observatoire, Paris, 1926, estimated at €60000-80000
Lot 25, Eugène Atget, Bon Marché, Paris, 1927, estimated at €60000-80000
Lot 52, Julia Margaret Cameron, Julia Jackson (Mrs. Herbert Duckworth), 1867, estimated at €20000-30000
Lot 55, Gustave Le Gray, Bateaux quittant le port du Havre (navires de la flotte de Napoléon III), France, 1856-1857, estimated at €25000-35000
Lot 70, Irving Penn, Three Poppies, Arab Chief, New York, 1969/1992, estimated at €100000-150000
The complete lot by lot catalog can be found here.
