Phillips Odyssey of Collecting Auction
Phillips’ Odyssey of Collecting auction takes place this coming week (3rd October 2017) in New York. This, the second half of their Odyssey of Collecting auction will include 229 lots by the biggest names in photography: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Robert Frank, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eugene Atget, Cecil Beaton, Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, William Henry Fox Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, Roger Fenton, Julia Margaret Cameron, Hippolyte Bayard, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Irving Penn.
Estimates range from $1,000 to $150,000 with bidding starting at 10am. Find out more about this auction, register to bid or view lots by clicking here.
Phillips released a statement ahead of the auction detailing some of the highlights of the auction:
Phillips is honored to announce highlights from the auction of The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something Foundation on 3 October. Following the successful offering of works from the collection earlier this year, the fall sale will include 229 lots, spanning three centuries of photography. Assembled by JGS’s founder Howard Stein, this sale presents rare and unique works by true masters of the medium, such as Eugène Atget, Edward Steichen, Imogen Cunningham, Robert Frank, and László Moholy-Nagy, among many others.
The sale includes many fine 19th-century photographs by makers whose names are synonymous with the medium’s early history. Early works by William Henry Fox Talbot and Southworth and Hawes demonstrate the creative energy of photography’s first decades. Large format prints by Gustave Le Gray, Carleton Watkins, and Julia Margaret Cameron are prime examples of these photographers’ work. An album of Felice Beato’s photographs of Japan shows how 19th-century photography often straddled the line between the documentary and the artistic.
The auction will also include an impressive selection of photographs by contemporary photographers, such as Robert Heinecken, Barry Frydlender, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Irving Penn, Idris Khan, and Shirin Neshat. Selected images from Are You Rea, a group of seven gelatin silver prints from 1966-1968 by Robert Heinecken, are among the sale’s highlights with one of the works serving as the cover lot for the auction catalogue.
Christopher Mahoney, Consultant, Photographs, said, “Working on the third sale of photographs from the Joy of Giving Something Foundation has reinforced for me how deep this collection delves into the very essence of photography. Whether he was collecting early photography, Pictorialism, Modernism, or Contemporary, Howard Stein was concerned foremost with photographic excellence, in terms of vision and quality. It is a remarkable exploration of photography’s vast expressive range.”