Since Photography is a generic title that includes the "Épreuves choisies" (from the photographic patrimony of Serge Plantureux) confronting "aesthetic mutations”. On Monday, December 12, 2011 at 4pm at Drouot Montaigne, under the expertise of Jean-Mathieu Martini, auctioneers Jean-Claude Binoche and Alexandre Giquello will be offering 300 lots as follows:

L’annonce, n°1-5
En attendant l’invention, n°6-15
Calotypes, n°16-28
Paris et la France, 29-47
Corot, 48-49bis
Études d’arbres, 50-61
Paysages, 62-70
Désastres de la guerre, 71-73
Théâtre italien, n° 74-105
Portefeuille d’un artiste, n°106-129
Atget, n°130-133
Instantannés, n°134-167
Anschütz, n°168-178
Janssen, n° 179-180
Marey, I, n°181-100
Marey, II, n°201-215
De nouvelles couleurs, n° 216-222
Kühn, n°223-226
Monet, n° 231
WWI, n°232-240
Métropolis, n° 241
De Gimpel à Man Ray, n° 242-271
Edgerton, n°272-276
WWII, n° 277-278
Brehme - Salas Portugal, n° 279-281
Brassaï, n°282-284
Robert Franck, n° 285-286
Morath - Callahan, n° 287-292
Cavalli - Giacomelli, n°293-299
Christo, n° 300
Estimated 4/5000€, lot 1 is the announcement of Arago’s invention on January 7, 1839 in "Le National" on January 9, 1839, and the following days.
In the second article, on January 11, 1839, the newspaper ran Arago’s comments about Egyptian light reacting particularly well to the new invention.
Collection with the National, Janvier-Juin 1839, 465x342mm, «vintage
publisher’s brown paper boards».
Lots 16 to 18 estimated 15/18000€ John B.Greene’s paper negatives entitled "Photography lesson on a balcony" 1832-1856.
Estimated 12/15000€ lot 39 is a Gustave le Gray print
"Bridge and place de la Concorde from the Assemblée Nationale"
Paris, 1859, an albumin print from a collodion glass negative, 365x478mm.
Estimated 100/110000€, lot 74 a unique Megalethoscope inlaid with ivory including 36 views, some hand painted.
Estimated 6000€, lot 132, the "Carpaux Fountain, Luxembourg" 1907 by Eugène Atget.
In the chronophotographic plate series by Étienne-Jules Marey, approximately 20 lots whose estimates range from 3000 to 6000€, even 12000€ for the first lot (181) "Course de l'homme".
Lot 223, an autochrome from 1907 (239x178mm) by Heinrich Kûhn "Mary Warner sur le versant de la colline Hans and Edeltrude Tutzing (Bavière), estimated 20/25000€.
Lot 241 "Gustav Fröhlich dans Metropolis" UFA photolab 1926 estimated 8000/12000€.
Lot 271, a large masculine solarized nude (900x810), 1933, by Man Ray estimated 30/40000€.
Finally lot 300 "Wall of oil containers-the iron wall", after 1962 by Christo and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon, Kodak paper print 175X229mm, estimated 4/5000€

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr


Since photography Selected prints
Binoche and Giquello
Monday December 12 at 4pm

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75008 Paris

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Expert

Jean-Mathieu Martini
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75002 Paris
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