On October 26, 2012, at 2/30pm in Salle 4 of the Hôtel Drouot, the Piasa auction house will exhibit a set of 211 vintage, modern and contemporary photographs.

The first part will feature 39 lots by Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard, and vintage salted paper prints by Julien Blot, Alphonse Fortier, Henri Le Secq, Charles Marville, Louis Robert, Auguste Salzmann and John Stewart.

Visitors will also find photographs by Eugène Béranger, Edouard-Denis Baldus ("Réunions des Tuileries au Louvre, Tomes I à IV" est. 12,000 - 15,000€), Achille Quinet, Désiré Charnay, Gustave Le Gray and Louis Alphonse de Brébisson ("La Croix de Grisy, près de Falaise" c.1853, est. 10,000 - 15,000€).

More modern items begin with lot 50, with prints by Gertrude Käsebier, Baron Adolphe de Meyer (Tortola,Valence 1918, est. 2,500 - 3,000€), Frantisek Drtikol, Florence Henri, Brassaï (a graffiti c. 1930-1940, est. 4,000 - 5,000€), Dmitri Baltermants and Henri Cartier-Bresson (Henri Matisse, Vence, 1944, est. 3,500 - 4,000€).

There are numerous photographs of Marilyn Monroe by André de Dienes and Lawrence Schiller (a portfolio of 14 signed and numbered 50 x 60 cm prints, est. 25,000 - 35,000€), harlequins from Lucien Clergue’s early career, a rare Luigi Ghirri print (Versailles 1985, est. 6,000 - 7,000€), and finally an Ernest Goh animal series, including “Head Shot” (#2043, est. 1,000 - 2,000€) and Lucie & Simon’s “Unexpected Encounter” (est. 4,500 - 5,000€).

Bernard Perrine
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Auction
Photographies anciennes, modernes et contemporaines
On Friday October 26th, 2012 - 2.30pm
Hôtel Drouot, salle 4
9 rue Drouot
75009 Paris - France

+33 (0)1 48 00 20 01
Exhibition
Hôtel Drouot, salle 4
Thursday, Ocotber 25th - 11am - 6pm
Friday, Ocotber 26th - 11am - 12am

Informations :
Consultant: Agnès de Gouvion Saint Cyr
Expert: Fannie Bourgeois
Pascale Humbert
p.humbert@piasa.fr
+33 153 34 10 19