Sie Kommen, Dressed and Naked, Paris, 1981

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HELMUT NEWTON (1920–2004)
Sie Kommen, Dressed and Naked, Paris, 1981
two gelatin silver prints, printed c. 1988
each signed, titled, dated and numbered '2/10' and '4/10', respectively, in pencil and stamped photographer's Monte Carlo copyright credit and reproduction limitation (verso)
each image: 18 1/2 x 18 3/4 in. (47 x 47.6 cm.)
each sheet: 23 7/8 x 19 7/8 in. (60.6 x 50.4 cm.)
(2)Sie Kommen, Dressed, Paris, 1981 is number two from an edition of ten.
Sie Kommen, Naked, Paris, 1981 is number four from an edition of ten.
(2)

Provenance

Goro International Press, Tokyo;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.

Literature

Helmut Newton, World Without Men, Xavier Moreau, New York, 1984, p. 72.
Helmut Newton, Helmut Newton in Moskau: Das Photographische Werk, Staatliches, Puschkin Museum dur Dastellende Kunste Erste Galerie Dekorative Kunst, 1989, p. 41.
Marshall Blonsky, Helmut Newton: Private Property, W.W. Norton & Company New York, London, 1990, pl. 37.
Karl Lagerfeld, Helmut Newton: Big Nudes, Schirmer Art Books, London, 1990, n.p.
Martin Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945, Rizzoli, New York, 1991, p. 24.
Helmut Newton et al., Helmut Newton: Aus Dem Photographischen Werk, Schirmer Mosel, Munich, 1993, pp. 31-32.
Helmut Newton, Pages From The Glossies: Facsimiles 1956-1998, Scalo, New York, 1998, p. 43.
Manfred Heiting (ed.), Helmut Newton: Work, Taschen, Cologne, 2000, p. 188.

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Lot Essay

‘Inspired by the German police’s life-size identity photographs of political terrorists, I began in 1980 two of my most successful series of nudes. Because of the liberal attitudes of both French and Italian Vogue, they agreed to feature these photographs prominently, giving them a great number of editorial pages. The Big Nudes were some of my rare photographs taken in the studio. The Naked and Dressed presented probably the biggest technical problems…there was a considerable time lag between the two versions. I had to match the exact movement of the model to each version with the help of many Polaroids.’ Helmut Newton

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