Sotheby’s New York announces a varied range of photographs for sale this October

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Sotheby’s fall Photographs auction on 5 October 2011 in New York will offer a varied range of material from the 19th to the 21st centuries — from an early copy of Gardner’s Sketch Book of the War to Contemporary photographs by Peter Beard, Robert Rauschenberg, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. Of particular note are masterpieces of 20th-century photography by Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Pierre Dubreuil, Paul Outerbridge, Imogen Cunningham, Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn, among many others. The pre-sale [...]

Records Abound at New York City Polaroid Photo Auction

NEW YORK (AP).- A historic sale of works by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography set records during a two-day auction of iconic images from the Polaroid corporate collection that concluded Tuesday. The auction of more than 1,000 photographs brought in $12.4 million, exceeding its pre-sale estimate of up to $10.7 million, Sotheby’s auction house said. Fourteen new artist records were set, including ones for a photograph by Ansel Adams, by Lucas Samaras, by Andy Warhol and by [...]

Opening Session of Photographs from the Polaroid Collection 100% Sold

NEW YORK, NY.- Tonight at Sotheby’s, bidding began for Photographs from the Polaroid Collection with the opening session bringing a remarkable $7,197,439, well-above expectations (est. $2.9/4.5 million) and with every lot finding a buyer. With more than 300 hundred lots left to sell tomorrow, the running total has already exceeded the low estimate for the entire sale (est. $6.9/10.7 million). Competition was fierce with a full salesroom competing against numerous telephones resulting in as many as ten different bidders vying [...]

Two Prints by Ansel Adams were Top Lots at Swann Galleries’ Auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Two versions of Ansel Adams’s iconic image of “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico”, 1941, sold to collectors at Swann Galleries‘ auction of Photographic Literature & Fine Photographs on December 8. A very rare vintage print created in 1948 that was signed and inscribed by Adams to Valentino Sarra, a photographer and W.P.A. poster designer and friend of Adams, sold for $360,000. It was one of only approximately 10 vintage prints Adams rendered with a delicate tonal quality. Ansel [...]

Iconic Ansel Adams Print Going Up for Auction at Swann Auction Galleries

NEW YORK, NY (AP).- An early print of an iconic Ansel Adams photograph is going up for auction in New York City for an estimated $350,000 to $450,000. The Dec. 8 sale of 1948′s “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” is at Swann Auction Galleries. The print is signed and inscribed to Valentino Sarra, a friend of Adams’ and a poster designer for the old Works Progress Administration. It shows a nighttime moon over a cloud-fringed mountain range with a graveyard in [...]