Every Booth at the 2013 AIPAD Photography Show, Part 3 of 6

Start here for Part 1 of this series. It provides some background and explanation for what's going on in these lists.

Alan Klotz Gallery (here): Josef Sudek, $14000. Not every Sudek table top still life is as active as this one with its shuddering multiplied egg reflection.

Michael Shapiro Photographs (here): Lewis Baltz, $28000. Prices for vintage Baltz prints have sure come up quite a bit in recent years, but this image is the kind I appreciate most. I love the circles on the left as an addition to the rectangular geometries, all executed in middle grey with a dash to dark black at the bottom.

Photo Gallery International (here): Yasuhiro Ishimoto, $7400. This fiery Ishimoto abstraction reminded me of a Morris Louis Color Field painting.

Galerie f5,6 (here): Anne Schwalbe, $2500. Each of the Schwalbe images on display was dominated by a single subtle color hue. This pink wall was quietly refined.

Peter Fetterman Gallery (here): Sebastiao Salgado, $50000. This huge print was shown on the exterior wall, the river at the bottom of the mountain valley shining like a white line.

James Hyman Gallery (here): Gustave Le Gray, $35000. I didn't realize Le Gray had made images in Egypt, so this stone gate was an unexpected surprise.

Robert Klein Gallery (here): Francesca Woodman, $55000. This elegant image is actually a video still from one of Woodman's film projects. I like the mix of torn paper and revealed body.

Bonni Benrubi Gallery (here): Stephane Couturier, 11000€. The immediately identifiable architecture of Brasilia, reconsidered via interlocked image fragment puzzle pieces.

Barry Singer Gallery (here): Lotte Jacobi, $6500. A hallmark of high contrast, unbalanced composition, the big black circle offsetting the oval face and its defined lips.

Hyperion Press Limited (here): Man Ray, NFS. A tiny print, but still impressive.

Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. (here): Walter Chappell, $3000. Carrot tops that seem to glow with internal light.

Steven Kasher Gallery (here): Irving Penn, $75000. There were plenty of Penns at AIPAD, but this one was my favorite. I like the twisted silhouettes passing through the glass and wine bottle.

Robert Burge/20th Century Photographs (here): D.W. Mellor, $3500 each. A theme and variation sonata of ovals and waved forms in this grid of abstractions.

Continue to Part 4 here.

Auction Results: Photographies, May 10, 2011 @Sotheby's Paris

The results of the recent various owner sale at Sotheby's Paris were generally uneventful. Aside from the continued strength of demand for Sudek pigment prints, I can't say there was much to write home about. The overall Buy-In rate was over 30% and the Total Sale Proceeds fell at the low end of the range.
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The summary statistics are below (all results include the buyer’s premium):

Total Lots: 83
Pre Sale Low Total Estimate: 1078000€
Pre Sale High Total Estimate: 1537000€
Total Lots Sold: 54
Total Lots Bought In: 29
Buy In %: 34.94%
Total Sale Proceeds: 1153425€

Here is the breakdown (using the Low, Mid, and High definitions from the preview post, here):

Low Total Lots: 22
Low Sold: 12
Low Bought In: 10
Buy In %: 45.45%
Total Low Estimate: 127000€
Total Low Sold: 54250€

Mid Total Lots: 52
Mid Sold: 35
Mid Bought In: 17
Buy In %: 32.69%
Total Mid Estimate: 760000€
Total Mid Sold: 640325€

High Total Lots: 9
High Sold: 7
High Bought In: 2
Buy In %: 22.22%
Total High Estimate: 650000€
Total High Sold: 458850€

The top lot by High estimate was lot 119, Man Ray, Sans Titre, Rayogramme, 1924, at 120000-150000€; it was also the top outcome of the sale at 120750€.

98.15% of the lots that sold had proceeds in or above the estimate range. There were only two surprises in this sale (defined as having proceeds of at least double the high estimate):

Lot 107, Edward Curtis, Before the Storm, 1906, at 72750€ (image at right, bottom, via Sotheby's)
Lot 131, Josef Sudek, Glass from Simple Still Lifes, 1950-1959, at 82350€ (image at right, top, via Sotheby's)

Complete lot by lot results can be found here.

Sotheby's
76, Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Honoré
75008 Paris

Auction Results: Photographies, November 19, 2010 @Sotheby's Paris

When the top four Edward Weston nudes all failed to sell at the beginning of the recent Photographs sale at Sotheby's in Paris, it probably looked like it was going to be a tough outing. Luckily Josef Sudek rode to the rescue, with all 7 Sudek lots on offer selling above their estimate ranges, a couple of the pigment prints jumping by more than 10X the pre-sale estimates. Needless to say, a new auction record was set for Sudek, and another was set for Manuel Alvarez Bravo. All in, these surprises (and others) helped to cover up the failure of the high priced Westons, and to bring the Total Sale Proceeds into the middle of the range.

The summary statistics are below (all results include the buyer’s premium):

Total Lots: 152

Pre Sale Low Total Estimate: 2286800€

Pre Sale High Total Estimate: 3228300€

Total Lots Sold: 101

Total Lots Bought In: 51

Buy In %: 33.55%

Total Sale Proceeds: 2704587€
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Here is the breakdown (using the Low, Mid, and High definitions from the preview post, here):

Low Total Lots: 39

Low Sold: 28

Low Bought In: 11

Buy In %: 28.21%

Total Low Estimate: 223300€

Total Low Sold: 243437€

Mid Total Lots: 98

Mid Sold: 64

Mid Bought In: 34

Buy In %: 34.69%

Total Mid Estimate: 1605000€

Total Mid Sold: 1589200€

High Total Lots: 15

High Sold: 9

High Bought In: 6

Buy In %: 40.00%

Total High Estimate: 1400000€

Total High Sold: 871950€
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The top lot by High estimate was lot 41, Edward Weston, Nu (Anita Brenner), 1925, at 150000-200000€; it did not sell. The top outcome of the sale was lot 89, Josef Sudek, Sans Titre (Etude de Nature-Morte), 1952, at 300750€, against an estimate of 18000-23000€.

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86.14 % of the lots that sold had proceeds in or above the estimate range. There were a total of 16 surprises in this sale (defined as having proceeds of at least double the high estimate):

Lot 11, Eugene Atget, Notre Dame, 1923, at 168750€
Lot 26, Edward Weston, Galvan Shooting, 1924, at 51150€
Lot 55, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Retrato de la Eterna, Mexico, 1935, at 228750€ (image at right, middle, via Sotheby's)
Lot 68, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Erotik - Ganz Gross! (Erotisme Monumental!), 1928-1932, at 34350€
Lot 74, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Umarmung (Etreinte), 1947-1951, at 17500€
Lot 75, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Musik im Ather (Musique des Ondes), 1947-1950, at 17500€
Lot 83, Josef Sudek, Dans L'Atelier, Etude de Nu, c1952, at 22350€
Lot 85, Josef Sudek, Le Quai Ales, Panorama de Prague, c1955, at 42750€
Lot 86, Josef Sudek, Last Roses (Window of My Studio), 1956/1958, at 48750€
Lot 87, Josef Sudek, Arbre, Vue de L'Ile de Strelecky, 1958, at 39150€
Lot 88, Josef Sudek, Sans Titre (Vase et Rose Morte), 1952, at 228750€ (image at right, bottom, via Sotheby's)
Lot 89, Josef Sudek, Sans Titre (Etude de Nature-Morte), 1952, at 300750€
Lot 92, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rue Mouffetard, 1954/Later, at 18750€
Lot 126, Russell James, Gisele, Virgin Gorda, 2004, at 16250€
Lot 131, Balthasar Burkhard, Le Zebre, c2000, at 12500€
Lot 135, Marina Abramovic, Balkan Baroque, 1997/1998, at 30750€

Complete lot by lot results can be found here.

Sotheby's

76, Rue Du Faubourg Saint-Honoré

75008 Paris