Sale Total: $4,922,875/ £3,889,071 / €4,430,588
Lots Sold: 175 | Lots Offered: 254
Sold by Lot: 69% | Sold by Value: 80%
Sarah Krueger, Phillips’ Head of Sale, Photographs, said, “This season, we continue to see demand for late 20th and early 21st century works, with new records having been set for both Hannah Wilke and The Starn Twins. Diane Arbus’ Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park and Robert Mapplethorpe’s Lisa Marie both performed exceptionally well, more than doubling their low estimates. We were delighted to see a strong showing of international participation via phone and online channels, and we look forward to our next Photographs sale, which will take place in London on the 3rd of November.”
TOP TEN LOTS
Description – Estimate – Price Achieved
1.Gilbert and George, Day, 1978
$500,000-800,000
$670,000
2. Richard Avedon, Brigitte Bardot, hair by Alexandre, Paris, January 27, 1959
$220,000-280,000
$250,000
3.Robert Frank, City Fathers, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955-1956
$200,000-300,000
$212,500
4.Diane Arbus, Child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C., 1962
$70,000-90,000
$150,000
£118,500/€135,000
5.Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Marie, 1987
$50,000-70,000
$125,000
£98,750/€112,500
6. Herb Ritts, Versace Dress, Back View, El Mirage, 1990
$100,000-150,000
$112,500
7. Vik Muniz, Starry Night, after Van Gogh from Pictures of Magazines 2, 2012
$50,000-70,000
$93,750
8.Helmut Newton, Saddle II, Paris, 1976
$40,000-60,000
$90,000
9.Richard Avedon, John Harrison, lumber salesman, and his daughter Melissa, Lewisville, Texas, November 22, 1981
$70,000-90,000
$87,500
NEW AUCTION RECORDS
Description Estimate Price Achieved
1.Doug & Mike Starn, Untitled #7 from Structure of Thought, 2000
$40,000-60,000
$75,000
*previous record price: $60,500 set in 1991
2.Hannah Wilke, S.O.S. Starification Object Series, 1974
$60,000-80,000
$68,750
*previous record price: $45,000 set in 2010
3.Neil Leifer, Muhammad Ali reacts after his first round knockout of Sonny Liston during the 1965 World Heavyweight Title fight at St. Dominic’s Arena, Lewiston, Maine, 1965
$7,000-9,000
$17,500
*previous record price: $17,187 set in 2011
