Photographs auction at Grisebach Berlin May 26th.

   Villa Grisebach in Berlin is staging a 190 lot auction of modern & contemporary photographs on May 26th.

   'Highlights include the famous Mainbocher Corset by Horst P. Horst (Est: €10,000-15,000) which counts among the masterworks of the history of photography, as well as George Hoyningen-Huene’s classical Divers, Paris (a print originally from the collection of Horst P. Horst) (Est: €8,000-12,000), Berenice Abbott’s New York at Night (Est: €7,000-9,000), André Kertész’s Melancholic Tulip (Est: €4,000-6,000), Andreas Feininger’s Empire State Building seen from New Jersey (Est: €3,000-4,000) or Leni Riefenstahl’s Glenn Morris (Diskuswerfer) (Est: €3,000-5,000).

   Especially rare are vintage prints by Helmar Lerski from two private collections, one is an extremely rare Selbstportrait (Est: €4,000-6,000), a Junger Bettler from the series Köpfe des Alltags (Est: €3,000-5,000) as well as partly hand-coloured works from Lerski’s early years in the U.S.A.

   More highlights of modern photography are René Burri’s Ché Guevara in an unusual large format (Est: €15,000-18,000), Erwin Blumenfeld’s Selbstportrait mit Maske (Est: €9,000-11,000), Arnold Newman’s portrait Jackson Pollock, Springs, Long Island (Est: €4,000-6,000) as well as works by David Bailey, Aenne Biermann, Mario Giacomelli, Germaine Krull, Michael Ruetz, Else Thalemann, Herbert Tobias and others.

   The contemporary section of the sale begins with Bernd and Hilla Becher’s nine-part work Fördertürme, Schuylkill County, PA, USA (Est: €20,000-30,000). Other top lots in this section include Valie Export’s Konfiguration mit schwarzer Hand (Est: €8,000-12,000), Peter Lindbergh’s Kristen McMenamy from the 1996 Pirelli calendar (Est: €12,000-14,000), Sarah Moon’s colour pigment print Jean-Paul Gaultier (Indépendant) (Est: €5,000-7,000) and Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Tri City Drive-In, San Bernardino (Est: €20,000-30,000) as well as works by Helmut Newton, Martin Parr, Bettina Rheims, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Miroslav Tichy, Wolfgang Tillmans, and others.'

 Horst P. Horst - The Mainbocher Corset

Later gelatin print. Estimate : €10,000-15,000

   You can view the online catalogue here.