draw
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“You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
Ansel Adams
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1941
gelatin silver mural print, flush-mounted on board, printed late 1960s
40 7/8 x 59 ¼ in.
Price realised
USD 930,000
776255530985537536
“A lot of people seem to think that art or photography is about the way things look, or the surface of things. That’s not what it’s about for me. It’s really about relationships and feelings…it’s really hard for me to do commercial work because people kind of want me to do a Nan Goldin. They don’t understand that it’s not about a style or a look or a setup. It’s about emotional obsession and empathy.”
Nan Goldin
Nan and Brian in Bed, N.Y.C., 1983
1983
Cibachrome print
24 ½ x 38 in.
Price realised
USD 63,000
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“It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.”
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Après le déjeuner
1881
oil on canvas
31 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.
Price realised
GBP 6,985,250
775944506560430080
“You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.”
Elizabeth Peyton
Balzac + Roses
2008
watercolour on paper
12 ¼ x 9 in.
Estimate
GBP 50,000 – GBP 70,000
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“Photography is a lie. I am not talking about the kind of lie where the camera deceives people into believing something is what it isn’t. I’m talking about how photography can misrepresent the truth.”
David Bailey
John Lennon and Paul McCartney
1965
platinum-palladium print.
19½ x 19½in. (49.5 x 49.5cm.)
Price realised
GBP 18,750
775124536368807936
Free your mind, and your art will follow.
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Bischoff, who in 1976 told Paul Karlstrom: “I’m still supporting myself by teaching,” had only two one man shows before his first New York show at Staempfli Gallery in 1960, including a 1955 show at the Paul Kantor Gallery in Los Angeles from which nothing sold. In contrast, leading artists in New York benefitted from a booming art market. For example, Willem de Kooning’s 1959 New York show sold out on the first day, bringing in about $150,000 (about $1.2 million dollars today, when adjusted for inflation).
Of course, de Kooning was a sensation, but many other New York artists sold well while California artists struggled. In this situation, decently paying teaching jobs were a rare and precious commodity. When it was rumored in 1955 that David Park had been offered $10,000 per year to teach at UC Berkeley, artist Nathan Oliveira – who at the time was earning $2.50 per hour teaching art 18 hours per week – thought that Park had been given “the opportunity of a lifetime.” As it turns out, Park’s actual starting annual salary was $5,300.00.
Elmer Bischoff
Orange Sweater
1955
Oil on canvas
48 ½ in. x 57 in.
SFMoMA collections