Plus the classic 20th century images of Irving penn, Richard Avedon and Robert Mapplethorpe, along with market-fresh photography from Latin America and a contemporary edition of ULTIMATE featuring exclusive works by Wolfgang Tillmans, Peter Beard, Idris Khan and Pieter Hugo, among others. Phillips' new artists this season include Susana Torres, Amanda Means, Bastiaan Woudt and Natalia LL.
Green Point Common, Cape Town from Kin
2013
Chromogenic print, flush mounted.
Image: 82.3 x 109.8 cm (32 3/8 x 43 1/4 in.)
Frame: 88.3 x 115.8 cm (34 3/4 x 45 5/8 in.)
Signed in ink with printed title, date and number AP2 on a Certificate of Authenticity accompanying the work.
This work is AP2 from the sold-out edition of 9 + 2 APs. This image is sold out in all sizes and editions.
Pixy
£18,000 – 22,000
Genevieve Janvrin and Yuka Yamaji, Co-Heads of Photographs, Europe, said: “We are thrilled to present the 13th edition of ULTIMATE this autumn. The nine carefully selected works are unique or out of print and available for sale only at Phillips, including our Wolfgang Tillmans cover lot and Amanda Means cover lot. In response to the growing interest in Latin American photography, we are thrilled to welcome back LATIN AMERICA with the fourth edition. Featuring 1959 artists, nine of whom were featured in the recent Urban Impulses: Latin American Photography From 2016-XNUMX exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London, this offering offers collectors the opportunity to acquire works which are being auctioned for the first time ".
1984
Unique work, comprising gelatin silver print with ink and affixed gelatin silver and chromogenic prints, executed later.
Sheet: 105.5 x 124.5 cm (41 1/2 x 49 in.)
Frame: 136 x 152.2 cm (53 1/2 x 59 7/8 in.)
Signed, dated and extensively annotated in ink on the recto.
Pixy
£80,000 – 120,000
In this version of ULTIMATE, Wolfgang Tillmans' introspective image of ripe apples brought out of his London flat, Idris Khan's 2004 homage to the Bechers' typologies, Peter Beard's haunting aerial view of 756 migrating elephants and Pieter Hugo's powerful photograph taken in the greenery of Cape Town Punto are four masterpieces that are emblematic of each artist's social and cultural concernsas well as aesthetic sensibility. Pieter Hugo: In Conversation, which explores his work in close-up, is published on Phillips.com. Debuting at Phillips is Bastiaan Woudt with his 2017 portrait, Thula, Alkmaar and Amanda Means with her unique color Polaroid of an incandescent light bulb. Each work presented in this selection is distinctive; the one thing they all have in common is that they are not available anywhere else.
1979
Gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to linen.
Image: 100 x 78.3 cm (39 3/8 x 30 7/8 in.)
Frame: 111.5 x 90 cm (43 7/8 x 35 3/8 in.)
Signed, numbered 9/10 in pencil, copyright credit reproduction limitation, title, date and edition stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Pixy
£80,000 – 120,000
Other highlights include Richard Avedon's 1979 portrait of Francis Bacon and owned by a private European collector, with Thomas Struth's Museo del Prado 3, Madrid, taken in 2005, and jpeg pp02 by Thomas Ruff from 2004.
