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There's more to art than meets the eye. Here is a selection of lots from past Saturday@Phillips sales. See what the experts say and then add your own pop-up knowledge or comments. Move your cursor over the image to reveal pop-up information. saturday@phillips.com
- Art expert:
While Newton worked comfortably in color photography, he was part colorblind and could not see the difference between blue and green.
- Art expert:
He took his first photograph aged 12, of a fountain in Berlin. By 16 he had an internship with the nude and fashion photographer Yva Elsa Neuländer-Simon.
- Art expert:
Renowned for his eroticized fashion and advertising images, Newton once received a letter from a Playboy magazine executive stating: “Do something for us … but nothing as kinky as what you do for French Vogue.”
- Art expert:
Helmut Newton has listed Rodchenko, Brassai and Erich Salomon as his earliest influences.
- Cyber Woman 1
- Helmut Newton
- September 16 2006
- $1500 to $2000
- $3800
