Rufus Anson – Collector Daily https://collectordaily.com Sun, 11 Aug 2013 16:04:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Auction Preview: Photographs, October 6, 2010, @Sotheby’s https://collectordaily.com/auction-photographs-october-6-2010-sothebys/ https://collectordaily.com/auction-photographs-october-6-2010-sothebys/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:32:00 +0000 http://cdmigration.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/auction-photographs-october-6-2010-sothebys Sotheby’s is up first this auction season with its various owner Photographs sale on October 6th. The sale is heavy on vintage Ansel Adams, Edward Curtis, and Robert Frank (quite a few images from London and Paris), with much less standout contemporary/color work. All in, there are 265 lots on offer in this sale, with a total High estimate of $6512500.

Here’s the statistical breakdown:

Total Low Lots (high estimate up to and including $10000): 113
Total Low Estimate (sum of high estimates of Low lots): $911500
Total Mid Lots (high estimate between $10000 and $50000): 128
Total Mid Estimate: $3066000
Total High Lots (high estimate above $50000): 23
Total High Estimate: $2535000
The top photography lot by High estimate is lot 29, Rufus Anson, Two Actors from the melodrama ‘Robert Macaire‘, 1850s, at $250000-350000. (Image at right, top, via Sotheby’s.) The next highest lot is lot 40, Edward Steichen, ‘Wind Fire’ Therese Duncan, Acropolis, 1921, at $120000-180000. (Image at right, bottom, via Sotheby’s.)
Here’s the short list of photographers represented by five or more lots in the sale (with the number of lots in parentheses):
Ansel Adams (28)
Edward Curtis (19)
Robert Frank (17)
Robert Mapplethorpe (13)
Berenice Abbott (12)
Edward Weston (10)
Harry Callahan (7)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (7)
Irving Penn (6)

The complete lot by lot catalog can be found here.

October 6th
1334 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
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