Sothebys, Photos, New York (American)
- Really conserative, marketable work, Weston Nudes, early Frank roadtrips, Imogen Cunnigham flowers, all selling for mid 5 to low 6 figures
- Breakfast Room by Evans, for 192, might be the best deal. (though Wessel's portfolio of Suburban Real Estate, 25k for 20, would also count--the only conceptual work in the auction)
- One work broke 1m, Nautulius, gelatin silver print, original printing, not a great photo but iconic (another nautlius, 6 years later, for 250)
- One of the better Avedons, from the Western seires , went unsold
- The one Mapplethorpe, literally classical, unerotic
- Sternfeild also went unsold (the pumpkin one)
Nancy Richardson, Sothebys
- A shitload of Siskind, all for decent or good prices, might make him the American Atget Afterall (10 or 15, b/w 40-70k)
- Well curated, some nice work from Chicago or from Harry Callahan match wel with urban new york work, the black and white fucntion as a unifier w/o being samey
- Adam Fuss, from 1997, looks remarkably liek the expirmental abstractions that were made in the 40s and 50s
- The two Weston's she owned both featured dead bodies
- Two warhol's look out of place with this collection, which explains why they went for so little, a fright wig study for 20k, a polarid of a hadn for 8.
- Best buy, three james welling prints for 3750
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