Christie’s Takes in the Panorama with Photographs from the Consolidated Freightways Collection

NEW YORK, N.Y.- This spring, Christie’s will offer an insightful coast-to-coast look at the 20th Century American landscape with Crossing America: Photographs from the Consolidated Freightways Collection. The highly anticipated sale has more than 250 lots and will be offered in two parts, beginning on April 7, 2011, followed by a second auction to take place in the fall, at Christie’s Rockefeller Center. Robert Mapplethorpe, Flag, 1987. Estimate: $70,000-90,000. Photo: Christie’s Images Ltd 2011. The collection, hailing from the freight [...]

Private Collectors Make Fantastic Donations of Photographic Art to Moderna Museet

NEW YORK, NY.- Several photographic works by Annika von Hausswolff, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe and other artists have been donated to Moderna Museet. These works will be shown in the museum’s new presentation of the collection – Another Story. Moderna Museet’s focus on photography in 2011 has been met with great enthusiasm even before it is in full swing. Several impressive private donations of works by key artists working in the photographic medium have further enhanced the museum’s collection. Since [...]

Hajek-Halke Vintage Photographs to Spearhead Sotheby’s Photographs Sale

LONDON.- Sotheby’s London May 20 sale of Photographs will offer 126 lots covering the history of photography from the beginnings through to the present with offerings of Contemporary works. The sale will include a group of thirteen works by Heinz Hajek-Halke – one of the most remarkable figures of German avant-garde photography in the 20th century – that come to the market directly from the artist’s estate. Das Eva-Chanson, dating from 1928-1932, perhaps Hajek-Halke’s most romantic and evocative image, is [...]

First Solo Exhibition at Xavier Hufkens for Sterling Ruby

BRUSSELS.- Xavier Hufkens presents the exhibition Sterling Ruby & Robert Mapplethorpe. In his first solo exhibition at the gallery, Sterling Ruby enters into dialogue with the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe. Alongside a highly personal selection of photographs by Mapplethorpe, the artist takes the opportunity to create new collages entitled Transcompositional and shows sculptures in various materials including several from the series Acts. Sterling Ruby is attracted to Mapplethorpe’s work because of “(…) the choice of subject matter and the contrast [...]