Live Auction 22050The Collection of Sir Elton John: Opening Night
HELMUT NEWTON (1920 - 2004)
Lot 28

HELMUT NEWTON (1920 - 2004)

Tied Up Torso, Ramatuelle, France 1980

Closed21 February 2024

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USD 201,600

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HELMUT NEWTON (1920 - 2004)
Tied Up Torso, Ramatuelle, France 1980
gelatin silver print, printed 1983
signed, titled, dated [with print date] and printer credit in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit and reproduction limitation in ink (verso)
image: 39 ¼ x 39 1⁄8 in. (99.6 x 99.3 cm.)
sheet: 43 ¼ x 43 ¼ in. (109.8 x 109.8 cm.)

Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2007.

Specialist note

Helmut Newton’s women are liberated, dominant and strong. He puts them to the test and he returns to them again and again. They love and seduce as and how they wish. In Tied up Torso, taken in Ramatuelle in 1980, the model is both an icon of desire swaddled in bondage and the symbol of a competent woman, clenched fist raised in the manner of Naomi Parker asserting We Can Do It, in 1943. Wild fantasies are equalized by the extreme sophistication and stunning elegance in this iconic Newton photograph.