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Edward S. CURTIS (B. 1868-1952, American)

The Vanishing Race, Navaho, 1904; The Fisherman-Wishham, 1909; A Son of the Desert-Navaho, 1904; Two Whistles-Apsaroke, from The North American Indian, 1908; Selected Images, from The North American Indian, 1903, 1904, 1905 (2), 1907, 1925; Selected Images, from The North American Indian, 1903, 1928 (5)

Estimate US$2,000-7,000 (Bonhams, New York, California, Los Angeles and California, San Francisco, November 1st 2011, Lots 36-41)

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Greg Miller
'Phantom Lady', 2010
Acrylic, collage and resin on panel, 76.2x101.6cm

Estimate: £6,000 - 8,000 (€7,200 - €9,600) (Bonhams New Bond Street, January 11th 2011, Lot 30)

California-based artist Greg Miller is inspired by pop culture, as well as conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, using text and bold images to create billboard-like paintings. His work is included in many significant collections, including Charles Saatchi, Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Playboy, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and the San Jose Museum of Art. [...]

Provenance: Scream Gallery, London
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«...The elusive Banksy remains the most bankable name in urban art and works by him carry the two highest estimates in the sale ... A taste of true graffiti art is provided by part of a backdrop for one of the Clash’s “Combat Rock” gigs in 1983, painted by US-born Futura 2000 as the band performed. The untitled piece is estimated at £15,000-£20,000, while Greg Miller’s pop art-inspired “Phantom Lady” is on offer at £6,000-£8,000. Among the best pieces, however, is “Shark” by DNTT (aka Tony D’Amico). While lacking the immediacy of true street art, the 12ft steel, copper and glass predator is every bit as menacing as the real thing. Snap it up for £8,000-£12,000. [...] Urban art, by Simon de Burton

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Corinne DAY (British, 1965-2010)

Untitled (George in the Bath), 1994
C-type print, signed, dated '2000' and numbered '2/7' in ink on the reverse 50.8x60.8cm

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium £1,080 (Bonhams London, November 16th 2010, Lot 144)
Estimate £1,000-1,500 (€1,100-1,700)

Untitled (Tara and Tim at Home, Stoke Newington), 1999
C-type print, signed, dated '2000' and numbered '3/7' in ink on the reverse 50.8x60.9cm

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium £1,080 (Bonhams London, November 16th 2010, Lot 145)
Estimate £1,000-1,500 (€1,100-1,700)

Untitled (Me at Home, Brewer Street), 1994
C-type print, signed, dated '2000' and numbered '1/7' in ink on the reverse 50.5x60.8cm

Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium £1,080 (Bonhams London, November 16th 2010, Lot 146)
Estimate £1,000-1,500 (€1,100-1,700)

Corinne Day, who died earlier this year, was a British fashion and documentary photographer whose images of Kate Moss catapulted her, and the model, to fame. Day's eight page fashion shoot of Moss for FACE caused furore when it was published in 1990, many of the images implying that the then 16-year old Moss was naked. In 1993, Day shot Moss again for Vogue, a cover that spearheaded the grunge look, dubbed 'heroin chic', that defined British fashion culture and celebrity photography throughout the '90s. A self-taught photographer, Day brought a more hard-edged, biographical feel to fashion image making, forging long and intense relationships with her models and depicting them with a disconcerting documentary look that revolutionised fashion photography at this time.

Day was regularly commissioned by British, Italian and Japanese Vogue and has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Modern and Saatchi Gallery, London, and at the Whitney Museum in New York. Much of her personal time was spent taking photographs for her first book, Diary (Kruse Verlag, 2000), an intensely personal visual record of her life and friends, both bleak and honest yet tender and poetic.

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Frantisek DRTIKOL (Czech, 1883-1961)

Nude Study, 1927
Vintage pigment print, flush-mounted to card. The photographer's blindstamp credit in the image lower right, 16.7 x 22.8cm

Estimate £25,000-30,000 (€29,000-34,000) (Bonhams London, November 16th 2010, Lot 43)

Frantisek Drtikol's curious imagination and creativity, combined with his fearless interrogation of the styles of the time - Cubism, Functionalism, Constructivism, Art Deco - work to create a highly personal and original aesthetic. His images stand alongside the greatest photographic works of the first three decades of the twentieth century; he was a pioneer in both technique and subject matter. Fascinated by the anxiety between innocent childhood and carnal lust, Drtikol was the first Czech photographer to address puberty in his work in and, indeed, the first Czech photographer to depict the female form in such a daring, radical and startingly modern way. As his studies of nudes develop, the women become more abstract signs than living forms. The earlier voluptuousness of the models' curves gives way to geometrical compositions where the curves of the body now form part of a more stylised pattern encompassing geometric decorations and shadows. Eventually, in the 1930s, Drtikol dispensed with the live body altogether, using plywood figures to achieve the forms and positions he desired.

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