Lot 3
  • 3

Helmut Newton

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Helmut Newton
  • 'Jassara, Rue Aubriot, Paris', 1977
  • photograph
Silver print. Signed and dated in black ink, and titled in pencil and with the artist's copyright stamp on the reverse. Mounted. 

Provenance

Ikona Gallery, Venice
Private Italian Collection

Literature

Manfred Heiting, Helmut Newton: Work, Cologne, Taschen, 2000, ill. p. 18.

Condition

This print is in overall good condition. With two faint scratches (approx. 7cm each) and a silvered retouching mark in the lower right quadrant, only visible in raking light, small random dots of retouching and handling marks. With some yellowing to the margins, rubbed edges and random loss of paper, away from the image. The back of the print is yellowed and fixed with tape at the top edge to the mount.
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