Monday, November 8, 2010

Auction: Photographies Modernes et Contemporaines, November 9, 2010 @Yann Le Mouel

Yann Le Mouel kicks off the Paris auction season for photographs tomorrow with its various owner sale. As usual, the material is mostly French/European and nearly all at the lower end of the market. Overall, there are a total of 250 lots on offer, with a Total High Estimate of 464130€.

Here's the breakdown:

Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including 7500€): 245
Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of Low lots): 401130€

Total Mid Lots (high estimate between 7500€ and 35000€): 5
Total Mid Estimate: 63000€

Total High Lots (high estimate above 35000€): 0
Total High Estimate: NA
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The top lot by High estimate is tied between three lots, all at 10000-15000€: lot 91, Andreas Feininger, The Photojournalist, 1955, lot 214, Kimiko Yoshida, La Mariée abelam au masque d'initiation baba, East Sepik, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Autoportrait, 2005, (image at right, bottom, via Yann Le Mouel) and lot 226, Peter Lindbergh, Naomi Campbell, Vogue US, Los Angeles, USA, 1990 (image at right, top, via Yann Le Mouel).
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Here is a short list of the photographers who are represented by four or more lots in the sale (with the number of lots in parentheses):

Robert Doisneau (16)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (9)
Andre Kertesz (8)
Izis (7)
Rene-Jacques (7)
David Bailey (6)
Elliott Eriwtt (5)
Francois Kollar (5)
Willy Ronis (5)
Nicolas Yantchevsky (5)
Edouard Boubat (4)
Raoul Hausmann (4)
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The complete lot by lot catalog can be found here.

Photographies Modernes et Contemporaines
November 9st

22, Rue Chauchat
75009 Paris

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