Live Auction 14977Photographs Including Property from the Museum of Modern Art
HELMUT NEWTON (1920–2004)
Lot 128 IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AN AMERICAN COLLECTION

HELMUT NEWTON (1920–2004)

Elsa Peretti, New York, 1975

Closed10 October 2017

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USD 37,500

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HELMUT NEWTON (1920–2004)
Elsa Peretti, New York, 1975
gelatin silver print
signed and dated in ink (margin); stamped photographer's copyright credit and titled, dated in ink (verso)
image: 13 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (33.6 x 23.1 cm.)
sheet: 16 x 12 1/8 in. (40.6 x 30.7 cm.)

Acquired directly from the artist;
Sotheby's, London, May 13, 2008, lot 151;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

The signature on the recto of this print, along with its ferrotyped surface, indicate that this is an early print by the artist. During the 1970s Newton preferred the hard, glossy surface of ferrotyped prints, and the way that it intensified the blacks of the image.