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Helmut Newton conceived his ‘Private Property’ portfolio in 1983. The selected images date from 1972 to 1983 and constitute a broad anthology of emblematic examples of his work through those years in an area of editorial photographic image-making that he had made his own – an interweaving of fashion photography, portraiture, and the erotic, a shrewdly calibrated amalgam of meticulous contrivance and sharp, quasi-documentary observation. Newton was a cunning metteur en scène, reconstructing things observed as he built his stylised tableaux, always with an edge of provocation and irony, He saw his role as that of a social documentarist whose images illustrate the lifestyles of certain privileged milieus in which wealth, power-play, beauty, talent, and style play so significant a part. Newton’s pictures are informed by his fascination with the protocols and traditions within certain social classes, whose implied narratives are rendered so persuasive by his acute sensitivity to context. His world is that of an old Europe, of grand hotels and spas, of elegant chateaux, villas, apartments, parks. And in the US he sought the visual metaphors that spoke of another, New World culture, from the skyscrapers of New York to the studio back lots of Los Angeles.Newton achieved very considerable success and recognition through the seventies. His first book, White Women, published in 1976, had been instrumental in raising his profile with an ever-wider audience. Gallery and museum exhibitions, and further books consolidated his reputation. The ‘Private Property’ portfolios were made in response to the growing interest from collectors wishing to enjoy Newton’s work in the form of high quality prints, made to the photographer’s exacting standards by master printer Thomas Consilvio.The Edition‘Private Property’ is conceived in three suites, each of fifteen prints, making a total of forty-five. This include images that have acquired the status of icons within Newton’s oeuvre – among them the naked ‘Sie Kommen’, ‘Tied torso’, ‘Office love’, ‘Self-portrait with Wife and Models’, ‘Elsa Peretti in a ‘Bunny’ costume by Halston’, ‘Saddle I’, and notable portraits that include David Bowie, David Hockney, Karl Lagerfeld, Charlotte Rampling, and Andy Warhol.‘Private Property’ was planned by Newton as an edition of 75 numbered sets plus 10 artist’s proofs. After the release of no more than 25 sets, including the present first artist proof set that was retained personally by Newton, he made the decision to release no further sets. Respecting this wish, the balance of the edition is now with the Helmut Newton Foundation and will not be released commercially.
HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
Private Property Suites I, II & III, 1984
成交價 英鎊 221,000
估價
英鎊 200,000 – 英鎊 300,000
估價不包括買家酬金。成交總額為下鎚價加以買家酬金及扣除可適用之費用。
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HELMUT NEWTON (1920-2004)
Private Property Suites I, II & III, 1984
成交價 英鎊 221,000
成交價 英鎊 221,000
