5 Pieces that Represent Jerome & Ellen Stern's Love of Photography

5 Pieces that Represent Jerome & Ellen Stern's Love of Photography

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  Carlos Garaicoa, Sin Título (Untitled), 2003. Estimate $15,000–20,000.

  Carlos Garaicoa is one of the foremost living contemporary Cuban artists, with a diverse body of work ranging from the large-scale installations for which he is best known to drawing, printmaking, video and photography. Garaicoa was originally trained in thermodynamics, and worked as a draughtsman during his mandatory military service prior to his career as an artist. His scientific approach to art making, and fascination with the built urban environment, were cultivated during this period, and are clearly visible in this meticulously constructed work. In the present lot , Garaicoa explores central themes that can be found throughout his body of work: the tensions between order and the ever-present threat of destruction, between his island nation and the ocean, between the utopian city and the reality of urban decay.
  
  
  
   
  
  

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  Dennis Oppenheim, Reading Position for Second Degree Burn, 1970. Estimate $5,000–7,000.

  This photograph from Dennis Oppenheim’s Body Art piece, wherein he lay in the sun for five hours on Jones Beach, is emblematic of Oppenheim’s pioneering work in the 1960s and 70s, in which he sought to take art out of the white gallery space and into the world. 
  
  

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  Nobuyoshi Araki, Selected Images from Colorscapes, executed in 1991, printed in 2005. Estimate $50,000–70,000.

  This bright grid of 18 prints features some of the most familiar themes in Araki’s work: visual puns, female subjects in bondage, and sly self-portraiture.
  
  

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  Mariko Mori, Empty Dream, 1995. Estimate $15,000–25,000.

  Mori, clad in a bright blue plastic mermaid costume, digitally inserted herself four times into a photograph of Seagaia Ocean Dome, which was one of the world’s largest indoor waterparks.
  
  

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  Thomas Struth, Paradise 7, Daintree, Australia, 1998. Estimate $40,000–60,000.

  Struth became interested in the rainforest as a subject as early as 1982. He used trips to Australia, China and Japan to scope out possible shooting locations for his Paradise images. He took the first eight photographs of the series in 1998 in Daintree, a tropical rainforest in the northeast of Australia.
  
  

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    Type: auction

    Category: Past Auction

    TO LIVE WITH ART: Property from the Jerome & Ellen Stern Collection

    5 March 2018 | 10:00 AM EST | New York

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    Type: video

    Category: Contemporary Art

    Jeffrey Deitch Remembers Jerome Stern
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    Type: story

    Category: Contemporary Art

    Contemporary Israeli Sculpture from the Stern Collection
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    Type: slideshow

    Category: Contemporary Art

    Marlene Dumas Confronts the Beauty and Ugliness of History
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    Type: story

    Category: Contemporary Art

    The Mischievous Collection of Jerome & Ellen Stern