2015 auction catalog - Museum of Photographic Arts

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LIGHTS,
CAMERA,
AUCTION!
2015 AUCTION CATALOG
EVENING SCHEDULE
PHOTOGRAPHY DEALS
EXQUISITELY WITH
APPEARANCES, BUT
NOTHING IS WHAT IT
APPEARS TO BE.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015
6:00 pm
DUANE MICHALS
cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the atrium
auction works on view in the galleries
silent auction begins
7:30 pm
welcome from the director
live auction begins in the atrium
8:30 pm
silent auction continues
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
WELCOME
welcome 3
LIGHTS, CAMERA, AUCTION
live auction 4
Welcome to Photo Auction 2015! On behalf of the Museum of Photographic Arts,
paddle raise
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silent auction 16
Host Committee, Board of Trustees and staff – I hope you’re ready for a night of
drinks, treats, art and friends.
I think you will agree with me that this year’s selection of work is the best to date.
More importantly, you can take it all home (with a generous bid, of course)! This
collection is a direct result of MOPA’s growing international reputation. Throughout
contributors 40
the year, our Collectors’ Salon and Photo Forum members travel the world, meeting
artists and building relationships that become the amazing donations you see here
acknowledgements 41
partners 42
payment procedures 54
conditions of sale 55
as part of the Photo Auction. Thank you to the artists, galleries and collectors for
contributing the beautiful photographs and limited-edition publications that will make
this auction a success. Returning for the third year, Andrea Fiuczynski continues
to bring her dynamic energy to this special night. Thank you, Andrea, and a warm
welcome to Sotheby’s, we are thrilled to have you as our auction partners. Finally, my
appreciation goes out to the donors, Host Committee and MOPA staff for your efforts
in making this an outstanding event.
Enjoy the evening, enjoy the art and thank you for helping us to make a difference
by believing in the work we do at the museum and for our communities. Now, go bid
and raise those paddles high!
Deborah Klochko
Executive Director
Museum of Photographic Arts
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MOPA PHOTO AUCTION 2015
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LIVE AUCTION
LIVE AUCTION
LOT 1
LOT 2
Flor Garduño (Mexican, b. 1957)
Bill Armstrong (American, b. 1952)
Hoja Elegante
Film Noir #1414
2 of 10
1998
2011
Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in.
Chromogenic print, 23 3/4 x 19 1/4 in.
$3,500 - $4,500
$2,000 - $3,000
Upcoming Exhibition at MOPA:
Flor Garduño: Trilogía, February 6,
2016 – May 15, 2016.
Courtesy of the artist
Courtesy of Throckmorton Fine Art,
New York
ABOUT THE ARTIST
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Flor Garduño began her career as a darkroom assistant for Manuel Álvarez Bravo,
one of Mexico’s most prestigious photographers. Since then, Garduño has received
numerable prizes, and her work has been exposed and published around the
world.
Since 1997, Bill Armstrong has been making photographs for his Infinity series,
a body of work that is wide-ranging in subject matter. Using appropriated
images, which he manipulates through photocopying, cutting, painting, and
re-photographing, Armstrong focuses the lens to “infinity.” The resulting
images become blurred representations of what they once were, eliminating the
identifiable qualities of the subject and allowing the viewer to bring their own
interpretation to each piece. In this aspect, the images become about perception,
mystery, and visceral response. Armstrong’s photographs have been exhibited
worldwide. His work can be found in numerous collections, including the Victoria
& Albert Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Philadelphia
Museum of Art, and the Vatican Museum, among others.
From her series Fantastic Women, Garduño’s work often integrates themes related
to nature and symbolizes the power of the female form. Her photographs have
been exhibited widely in Europe, Canada, the US and Latin America, and are held
in many permanent collections, including those at the Museum of Modern Art, the
Art Institute of Chicago, and the Bibliotèque National, Paris.
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LIVE AUCTION
LIVE AUCTION
LOT 3
LOT 4
Josef Fischnaller (Austrian, b. 1964)
Tamas Dezso (Hungarian, b. 1978)
Isabella Von B
1 of 3
Chair (Ursici, West Romania)
Notes for an Epilogue
1 of 9
2009
C-Print, front-faced to acrylic, mounted
to aluminum-dibond, 23 1/2 x 32 in.
Chromogenic print, 32 x 40 in.
$8,000 - $12,000
$4,000 - $6,000
Courtesy of the artist and
57 STUX Gallery, New York
Robert Koch Gallery
Josef Fischnaller embeds mischievous details into ornate, luminous photographic
portraits that reference Old Masters like Caravaggio and Diego Velázquez.
Playing with traditional ideals of beauty and subverting class and gender norms,
Fischnaller revives and reinvents the sitters of heroic painters that came before
him. His background in high-end fashion photography comes through in the
compositions, evoking the same sense of intense construction, visionary planning
and seductive theatricality. Fischnaller has received the CCA Venus Gold and
Silver awards, the International Andy Award of Montreux Public Interest and the
Cresta Awards for Unicef in 2006.
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2013
Tamas Dezso began his career as a photojournalist for various magazines and daily
newspapers before deciding to focus on his own work examining Eastern Europe at
a time of major political transition. His series Notes for an Epilogue is an on-going
body of work depicting a time of transition in rural Romania and across Hungary
following the fall of Communism in the late 1980s. The project comprises images
of large-scale, painterly landscapes, derelict factories and life on the periphery
of society. With this series, Dezso is not offering portraits of a nation but rather
a careful examination of the decaying ruins of the Soviet era, their effects on
villages, communities and individuals and the slow disappearance of centuriesold traditions. His photographs have appeared in TIME magazine, The New York
Times, National Geographic, GEO, Le Monde magazine, and many others.
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LIVE AUCTION
LOT 5
LOT 6
Yao Lu (Chinese, b. 1967)
Ysabel LeMay (Canadian, b. 1966)
Spring in the City
Yao Lu’s New Landscape
3 of 8
Meet Me There
Gracia
2 of 7
2007
2015
Chromogenic print, 47¼ x 47¼ in.
Digital chromogenic dye print, frontfaced to UV plexi, mounted to dibond,
36 x 36 in.
$6,000 - $7,000
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA:
Infinite Balance: Artists and the
Environment (2011)
Courtesy of the artist and 798 Gallery
Yao Lu’s images of lush mountain vistas swamped in mist and surrounded by sea
are not what they seem. His concern about the impact of China’s rampant path
toward urbanization is portrayed in photomontaged manipulations that borrow
from the aesthetic of classical Chinese painting. Mostly circular, fan-shaped,
or scroll-like, Lu’s harmonious landscapes are populated by tiny figures walking
through the mist. However, a closer look reveals the chimerical mountain scenes
are in fact construction sites scaled out of proportion. Lu’s commentary on the
dramatic consequences of China’s rapid industrialization is further reinforced
by the artist’s stylistic choices. His recycling of a traditional aesthetic to
approach contemporary issues reveals the tension between society’s past and
present values. Lu’s environmental message crosses borders and raises pressing
questions about the hidden costs of modernization and global sustainability.
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$4,500 - $5,500
Courtesy of the artist and Catherine
Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Combining her technical expertise with her deep-seated roots as a painter, Ysabel
LeMay continues her exploration into the power and divinity of nature through
a unique process she calls “Photo-Fusion.” At first glance, you might think you
are looking at a hyper-realistic painting. However, LeMay’s technique is very
straightforward, yet extremely time consuming. She photographs flora, birds, tree
limbs, flowers, and anything else she finds along her daily walks. Once back in the
studio, she assembles all her files into her computer and starts layering images,
using hundreds of individual files to construct each final photograph. Balancing
color, light and subject, LeMay creates pieces that vibrate with an intensity often
experienced in dreams. Since winning the KiptonART Rising Program in 2010,
LeMay’s work has been in over 70 exhibitions around the globe and has been
acquired by numerous museums and private collections.
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LIVE AUCTION
LOT 7
LOT 8
Kevin Cooley (American, b. 1975)
Henry Diltz (American, b. 1938)
Controlled Burn 8
1 of 4
Neil Young - Broken Arrow Ranch
Artist Proof
2013
1971
Archival pigment print, 60 x 40 in.
Gelatin silver print, 14 9/16 x 21 5/8 in.
$8,000 - $12,000
$2,000 - $3,000
Kevin Cooley: Elements (2013)
Taking Aim: Unforgettable Rock ‘n’ Roll
Photographs Selected by Graham Nash
(2010)
The Kopeikin Gallery
Courtesy of Morrison Hotel Gallery
Through photography, video, and installation, Kevin Cooley’s work is a meditation
on our evolving relationship with technology, nature, and ultimately each
other. Cooley works with elemental forces beyond his control, addressing how
these forces contend with each other, and how we exist among them, using
his experiences and direct interventions to provide the underlying conceptual
framework of his practice. In Controlled Burns, swirling and imposing clouds
of smoke contend with one another in a physical battle between diametrically
opposing explosions of black and white. The imagery serves as metaphor for
binary opposition, e.g. good vs. evil or day vs. night, but this is not the sole
line of inquiry. Inspired by the smoke signals of the Papal conclave which
uses smoke as form of basic communication, this series is a part of a larger
artistic practice focusing on human relationships to nature. Cooley’s work is
in prominent collections including 21C, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, and the
Guggenheim Museum.
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For over 40 years, Henry Diltz has been the visual historian of popular music.
His work has graced hundreds of album covers and has been featured in books,
magazines and newspapers. His unique artistic style has produced powerful
photographic essays of Woodstock, The Monterey Pop Festival, The Doors,
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Jimi Hendrix and scores of other legendary artists.
In the hills near La Honda is a ranch Neil Young purchased in 1970 and where
he still lives today. He has recorded several albums at the Broken Arrow studio
there and he wrote the song ‘Old Man’ about the previous owner. Graham
Nash once told a story about the ranch: “I once went down to Neil’s ranch
and he rowed me out into the middle of the lake-putting my life in his hands
once again. He waved at someone invisible, and music started to play in the
countryside. I realized Neil had his house wired as his left speaker and his barn
wired as his right speaker. And Elliot Mazer, his engineer, said ‘How is it?’ And
Neil shouted back, ‘More barn.’”
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LIVE AUCTION
LOT 9
LOT 10
Yoko Ono (Japanese born American,
b. 1933)
Infinite Universe at Dawn
2014
Signed, limited edition book
$400 - $600
Courtesy of Genesis Publications
Limited, Buildford, Surrey UK
Doug + Mike Starn (American, b. 1961)
$12,000 - $18,000
Seascape 6
4 of 10
Picturing Eden (2007)
2010-12
Courtesy of the artists
Ultrachrome K3 Inkjet prints on gelatin
silver hand-coated watercolor paper,
10 1/2 x 48 in.
Infinite Universe at Dawn celebrates Yoko Ono’s seminal art and activism across
eight decades. The book brings Ono’s life work together for the first time, from her
Avant-garde initiatives, through her creative collaboration with John Lennon, to her
continuing music, art and peace campaigns. Iconic, rare and previously unseen
pieces and photographs from the artist’s own archives are showcased in over 300
silver-edged pages.
‘Seeds of ideas, like pebbles, were raining through my life. Genesis Publications
has captured those seeds and presented them to you here, for your observation,
selection and experimentation, to make their destination entirely yours.’ - Yoko Ono
Working together since the age of 13, the collaborative artwork of Doug + Mike
Starn effectively combines the traditionally separate disciplines of sculpture,
photography, painting, video, and installation. This featured piece continues their
exploration of the interconnectedness of philosophical notions, memory, and
the natural environment. Through their use of multimedia and the creation of
metaphorical landscapes the artists infuse their work with natural physical layers
and mystery. The Starns have been the recipients of numerous awards, including
two National Endowment for the Arts awards in 1987 and 1995, The International
Center for Photography’s Infinite Award for Fine Art Photography in 1992, and
artists in residency at NASA. Their work has been widely exhibited and is included
in a number of permanent collections throughout the world.
Ono is an award-winning multi-media artist and peace activist, who constantly
challenges and stretches traditional boundaries. Her performance art in the early
1960s, experimental films and collaborative music with John Lennon in the
1970s, and international one-woman shows and retrospectives during the 1980s,
1990s and 2000s illustrate her varied career.
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PADDLE RAISE
LOT 11
Hendrik Kerstens (Dutch, b. 1956)
Aluminum Foil
Printer’s Proof 1 of 2
2012
Archival pigment print, 40 x 30 in.
$40,000 - $60,000
Hendrik Kerstens: Model and Muse
(2015)
Danziger Gallery
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Inspiration comes from many sources. For Hendrik Kerstens, it is his daughter,
Paula, who inspires his photographic explorations. For more than two decades,
self-taught photographer Kerstens’ primary subject has been his daughter. From
the beginning his images were not the traditional snapshots of a child growing
up, rather his formalized portraits of her had and continue to have far more in
common with traditions in painting — light, gaze, gesture and scale. These
are the foundation upon which Kerstens creates his on-going body of work. By
directing the viewer’s gaze to images that closely reference painting and yet are
the product of modern technology, the artist has created work that is sublime,
provocative, and endlessly fascinating. His photographs have been collected by
museums around the world and have inspired tastemakers as diverse as Elton
John and Alexander McQueen. McQueen, in fact, based his fall 2009 collection
on Kerstens’ work.
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MOPA provides programs that impact people of all ages in our communities. Your generous
donations allow us to serve kids, teens, and seniors to better understand photography and its
role in our lives. As a center for visual learning, these programs allow us to meet our mission
of engaging, educating and inspiring the broadest possible audience.
KIDS
Through our Exposure school programs, MOPA teaches underserved youth throughout
San Diego how to better view images, and how to make images that share their views of
the world.
TEENS
MOPA’s Teen Voices Collaborative promotes real-world problem-solving skills by having them
get involved in the museum to make it a better experience for people their age.
SENIORS
Seniors Exploring Photography, Identity and Appreciation (SEPIA) is a program for adults over
the age of 55 to build their confidence with digital photography. 25 percent of the program is
specially designed to serve people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
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SILENT AUCTION
SILENT AUCTION
WHITE ROOM, LOTS 100 - 121, CLOSES AT 9:00 PM
LOT 100
LOT 103
Max Kellenberger (Swiss, b. 1956)
Branches
Feld und Flur, Artist Proof
1990/2013, Photo Gravure, 7 x 7 in.
Leslie Starobin (American, b. 1955)
This is Written On The Spot
Dear Dearest Mother, 1 of 20
2015, Still-Life Montage (Printed on Hahnemuhle
Museum Etching Paper), 20 x 20 in.
$500 - $800
Courtesy of the artist and Corden Potts Gallery
Kellenberger’s expressive photographs use texture,
light, and shadow to convey emotions in intimate,
almost voyeuristic, images.
$600 - $900
Starobin is a Professor of Communication Arts at
Framingham State University in MA, where she
specializes in photography, visual communications,
and the history of photography.
LOT 101
Takashi Tomo-oka (Japanese, b. 1971)
Mokuren Magnolia III
2011, Digital photo printed on Japanese Washi paper,
36 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
LOT 104
Alex Dorfsman (Mexican, b. 1977)
Untitled 3
Natural Selection, 1 of 6
2008, Digital print, 17 3/4 x 47 1/4 in.
$1,000 - $2,000
Courtesy of Ippodo Gallery
Tomo-oka’s minimalist images of the natural world
recall the Japanese Edo-period paintings. His pictures
are often printed on handmade washi paper and
mounted on silk to resemble the temple scrolls
Tomo-oka saw growing up in Kyoto.
LOT 102
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$3,000 - $4,000
Using photography and video, Dorfman’s imagery
explores the dynamic relationship between nature
and artificiality.
LOT 105
Jennifer Greenburg (American, b. 1977)
Two years later, I was drunk enough to sing
at the St. Pat’s Party. How embarrassing!
Revising History, Unique
2014, Archival Pigment Print, 20 x 16 in.
John Brinton Hogan (American, b. 1963)
Photographer Scouting Locations, South of Palm
Springs, CA 2015 (Orange Glitter)
Unique
2015, Mixed media on paper, 17 1/4 x 24 in.
$2,400 - $3,600
Courtesy of the artist and JDC Fine Art
Using digital technology, Greenburg interjects herself
into scenes of mid-century America. Her series Revising
History seamlessly incorporates photographs of
Greenburg and her husband within the compositions
of anonymous vintage negatives.
$1,200 - $1,800
Hogan’s work examines land use, preservation
strategies, and artistic representations of the
American West.
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LOT 106
LOT 109
Ville Kansanen (Finnish, b. 1984)
Forgiveness
The Procession of Spectres, 1 of 11
2013, Pigment print, 11 1/4 x 17 in.
Joni Sternbach (American, b. 1953)
13.02.23 #6 Three Surfers, Morro Rock
Surfland, 3 of 8
2013, Archival inkjet print from unique Tintype,
14 x 17 1/2 in.
$400 - $600
This series, The Procession of Spectres, engages with
vast landscapes to examine the fragmentary nature of
the human condition and the emergence of self.
LOT 107
Lynn G. Fayman (American, 1904-1968)
Untitled (Patterns and Textures)
1949/2013, Modern archival pigment print,
23 x 27 in.
LOT 110
Matthew Brandt (American, b. 1982)
Plastic Cleaner Magic 05
Can Scans, Unique
2014, Chromogenic Print in Plexiglass frame
with Plastic Cleaner Magic and Watercolor,
10 3/4 x 5 1/4 in.
$400 - $750
Courtesy of The Lynn G. Fayman Archive, Museum of
Photographic Arts
In 2013, MOPA became the recipient of the Lynn
G. Fayman Archive, which includes his slides,
photographs, exhibition history, correspondence,
articles, and awards.
LOT 108
Pablo Lopez Luz (Mexican, b. 1979)
Libramiento Palenque, Chiapas
Natura
2007, Digital Inkjet Print. Ultrachrome K3 Ink,
23 x 23 in.
$2,500 - $3,000
Luz’s specific intention is to reinterpret the
classical notion of the Mexican landscape, through
a contemporary point of view, brought about by
the presence of man and the relationship to his
surroundings.
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$1,200 - $1,800
Sternbach makes her photographs in tintype, a laborintensive technique little changed since its invention in
the 1850s. Spontaneous and unpredictable, the streaks
and tonal variations in the finished photographs reflect
their hand-made character, the corners rubbed where
they were held in the camera.
LOT 111
$2,800 - $4,200
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: Staking Claim:
A California Invitational (2013)
Courtesy of the artist and Yossi Milo Gallery,
New York
Brandt is an experimental photographer who works with
different processes and materials to create images that
are at once beautiful, yet balanced with his artistic
concept.
Klea McKenna (American, b. 1980)
Microclimate #10 (Rain Study, Kona, March)
Unique
2015, Photogram of rain on gelatin silver
fiber paper, 14 x 11 in.
$1,600 - $2,400
Courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery
McKenna uses a variety of strategies: hand-made
cameras, outdoor photograms, and methods of folding
film and paper to create sculptural images. Light,
both the science and magic of it, is at the center of
all her work.
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LOT 112
LOT 115
Yu Xiao (Chinese, b. 1984)
Going to School
Nursery Rhymes, 1 of 8
2012, Pigment print, 41 x 41 in.
Garry Fabian Miller (English, b. 1957)
Bliss Special Edition Book with White in Blue
Bliss, 1 of 10
Late Winter 2009, Bliss, Published by HackelBury +
Filtow, including a limited edition water, light Lambda
C-print from dye destruction print,
16 x 24 in.
$2,500 - $3,000
Courtesy of the artist and 798 Gallery
In this series, Never Grow Up, Yu Xiao digitally creates
child versions of herself as a commentary on China’s
one child rule and the intense focus on childhood
that results.
$7,600 - $11,400
Courtesy of the artist and HackelBury
Fine Art, London
Without the use of a camera, Fabian Miller works with
cardboard stencils and glass vessels filled with oil and
water to create abstract forms in color. Out of these
simple tools he creates otherworldly, seemingly perfect
forms that both engage and obscure their photographic
making.
LOT 113
Ellen Garvens (American, b. 1955)
Punch 2
Parallel Play, Artist Proof
2015, Archival inkjet print, 20 x 15 in.
$800 - $1,200
Garvens combines photography, sculpture and drawing
with interest in the fluctuation between two and three
dimensions.
LOT 116
Garry Fabian Miller (English, b. 1957)
Bliss Special Edition Book with Blue in Blue
Bliss, 1 of 10
Spring 2009, Bliss, Published by HackelBury + Filtow,
including a limited edition water, light Lambda C-print
from dye destruction print,
16 x 24 in.
LOT 114
Scott Polach (American, b. 1980)
Reconstruction #051013
Reconstruction, 1 of 3
$1,000 - $1,500
This body of work inspired by the Ghilotti Brothers,
these pieces consider the mundane patriotic
undertones of federally-funded landscape surveying,
construction, and gardening.
$7,600 - $11,400
Courtesy of the artist and HackelBury Fine Art, London
LOT 117
Unknown Photographer
Nude with Veil
Postcard
1910, Postcard, 5 5/16 x 3 7/8 in.
$100 - $300
Anonymous Donation
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GRAY ROOM, LOTS 122 - 142, CLOSES AT 8:50 PM
LOT 118
LOT 122
Chris Engman (American, b. 1978)
Dust to Dust
1 of 3
2010/2015, Dust to Dust, 13 X 32 in.
Les Etoiles de la Danse Andree Maryse
1910s, Postcard, 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.
$100 - $300
Anonymous Donation
$1,600 - $2,400
Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus
Los Angeles
Chris Engman’s images are photographic records of the
artist’s own site-specific installations. The mound on
the right is on the same spot of earth, made with the
same material, but rotated 135 degrees and made to
appear as it had before.
LOT 119
French Photo Card Nude
1900s-1910s, Stock Card, 3 13/16 x 5 6/16 in.
$100 - $300
Anonymous Donation
LOT 120
Patricia Martin (Mexican b. 1972)
Anima
Mayan Soul, 1 of 10
2014, Archival pigment print, 19 5/8 x 13 1/16 in.
LOT 121
$1,000 - $1,500
She studied Visual Arts at Universidad Veracruzana,
and continued her art education in École Nationale
Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, in Paris, and art
therapy applied to marginalized groups in Universidad
Complutense in Madrid.
LOT 123
Michael Lundgren (American, b. 1975)
Untitled
1 of 7
2013, Archival pigment print, 24 x 30 in.
$2,600 - $3,800
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: After Ansel Adams
(2014)
Lundgren works collaboratively with artists, scientists
and writers on historically and socially engaged bodies
of work, but his true passion is the poetic potential of
the medium.
Zoe Zimmerman (American, b. 1965)
Figure 20
Of Men, 2 of 24
$1,200 - $1,800
Zimmerman examines male behavior, in particular,
“touch” and platonic intimacy and how societal
and cultural biases set the parameters for physical
relationships.
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LOT 124
LOT 127
Holly Roberts (American, b. 1951)
Ladybug
2008, Mixed media, 12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.
LOT 125
Suda House (American, b. 1951)
Untitled
Sanctuary Series, 2 of 5
2008, Archival pigments on poly silk,
16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.
$1,500 - $2,000
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: Introductions:
Extended Images (1987), Unusual Suspects: Paintings
& Photography by Holly Roberts (2012)
Courtesy of the artist and Craig Krull Gallery
By combining painting and collage in her finished
pieces Roberts challenges our perception of the
photographic medium. Roberts lets her imagination
guide her as she takes original photographs and
repurposes them to create illustrative stories with
figures and animals, infusing the work with a rich
narrative.
Jim Naughten (British, b. 1969)
Herero Cadet in Blue Hat
Herero
2012, Chromogenic Print, 21 x 17 in.
$1,200 - $1,800
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: The Big Picture:
Polaroid 20 x 24 Images (1983)
Courtesy of the artist and dnj Gallery
Suda House’s recent photographic works on silk draw
the viewer into an emotional struggle of craving,
suffocation, denial, detachment and the sanctuary
of solitary sleep. In 1980, Suda House received
the National Endowment of the Arts Emerging
Photographer’s Award Fellowship. Her works are in the
collections of Polaroid Corporation, Los Angeles County
Museum, Creative Center of Photography and Museum
of Photographic Arts.
LOT 128
Shigeru Yoshida (Japanese, b. 1958)
Border 08
Border, 2 of 10
2015, Fresco Giclee Print, 13 1/4 x 20 in.
$1,000 - $1,500
Courtesy of the artist and Klompching Gallery
In this series each image, a portrait of Herero tribe
members of Namibia, reveals a material culture that
harkens the region’s tumultuous past: residents wear
Victorian era dresses and paramilitary costume as
a direct result and documentation of its early 20th
century German colonization.
$1,600 - $2,400
After disaster struck Japan in 2011, Shigeru Yoshida
started to work on the photographic series Borders.
His inner experiences are reflected in his works, where
he explores the sacred value of water, in which the
traditional Japanese worldview signifies time of life and
durable bonds between human and nature.
LOT 126
Flor Garduño (Mexican, b. 1957)
Coloquio, Mexico
1999 (Printed 2000, Vintage Print), Gelatin silver
print, 13 x 17 in.
$4,400 - $6,600
LOT 129
Border 19
Border, 2 of 10
$1,600 - $2,400
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LOT 130
LOT 133
Border 02
Border, 2 of 10
Beaumont Newhall (American, 1908-1993)
Edward Weston’s Coffee Grinder
Gelatin silver print, 1940, printed later, Chromogenic
print, 13 1/16 x 10 1/8 in.
$1,600 - $2,400
$2,400 - $3,600
Courtesy of The Estate of Beaumont and Nancy Nouhall
and Scheinbaum and Russek, LTD.
Santa Fe, NM
Newhall was the first curator of photography at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York. His book “The
History of Photography: 1839 to the Present” has
become the standard general history of photography.
LOT 131
Kenji Wakasugi (Japanese, b. 1941)
Eclipse
1
2015, Combination of analogue and digital
photography, 13 x 19 in.
$1,200 - $1,800
Courtesy of Ippodo Gallery
Wakasugi has worked mainly as a portrait photographer
for magazines, photographing well-known writers,
presidents, scholars and celebrities. Now he is creating
his works by combining Japanese traditional arts and
his photography as the focal point of his expression.
LOT 134
7/29/1940, 53245
Unique
1940, Mugshot, 3 x 5 in.
$100 - $300
Anonymous Donation
LOT 132
Jane Olin (American)
SiteSight Unseen 18
SiteSight Unseen
2015, Pigment print from original gelatin silver print,
24 x 20 in.
$1,200 - $1,800
Olin’s pieces are intuitive photographs of women and
nature that are expressive, subtly shaded, and evocative
of the time and place in which they were made.
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LOT 135
Reed, William Durlee ( C ) 10/3/42, 59372
Unique
1942, Mugshot, 3 x 5 in.
$100 - $300
Anonymous Donation
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SILENT AUCTION
LOT 136
LOT 139
Lev Rukhin (Russian born American)
Lipstick: The Curves of Curbs
1 of 5
2012, 35 mm contact sheets enlarged, face mount
plexi/rear mount dibond, 36 x 72 in.
Brett Weston (American, 1911-1993)
Abstraction
1954 (printed later), Gelatin silver print,
9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in.
$800 - $1,200
Courtesy of Michael Dawson Gallery
Weston was photographer Edward Weston’s son. Edward
removed Brett from school at age thirteen and took him
to Mexico, where he became his father’s apprentice.
There he was influenced by the revolutionary artists of
the day such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera.
LOT 137
$2,500 - $3,500
Courtesy of Gail and Ralph Bryan
Rukhin’s works are compositions made of whole,
unedited contact sheets of 35mm or medium
format film.
LOT 140
Gwen Small (American, b. 1941)
Leaf Rhapsody
Nature’s Pattern
2015, Archival inkjet print, 8 x 10 in.
Douglas Dubler (American, b. 1947)
Flatiron in Fog
1 of 25
2014, Archival digital print (Digigraphie certified and
registered), 10 3/4 x 16 in.
LOT 138
$1,200 - $1,800
Courtesy of Douglas Dubler 3
Dubler’s professional photographic career began in the
late ‘60s in California underwater life. Dubler actually
lived underwater in submerged habitats for weeks at
a time.
$250 - $350
LOT 141
Frank (Age 11)
Untitled
2013, Chromogenic Print, 10 x 8 in.
Han Nguyen (American, b. 1956)
Untitled #16
In Studio (working title), 1 of 10
2012, Archival pigment print, 24 x 16 5/8 in.
$1,500 - $2,200
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: Han Nguyen: In
Studio (1999), Picturing Eden (2007), State of Mind:
Nguyen’s delicate and transformative imagery
investigates beauty, perception and the medium itself
through modest working methods that employ pinhole
cameras, fabricated studio arrangements and subtle
color toning.
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$250 - $350
Courtesy of the Rwandan Orphans Project
LOT 142
Franziska Alfaro (Age 13)
Memorable Bridge
2013, Mixed media on paper, 9 x 7 1/2 in.
$250 - $350
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SILENT AUCTION
SILENT AUCTION
ORANGE ROOM, LOTS 143 - 168, CLOSES AT 8:40 PM
LOT 143
LOT 146
Paul Turounet (American, b. 1962)
Hidalgo San Antonio, Durango, Mexico, 1998
Print: 2 of 3, Book: 15 of 50
Print/Book: 2014, Archival pigment print and artist
book, 20 x 16 in.
LOT 144
$800 - $1,200
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: Facts Showered
with Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection
(1999), Acquired Vision: A Selection of Recent
Acquisitions (2001), The Discerning Eye: Southern
California Collects (2003).
Courtesy of the artist and Joseph Bellows Gallery
Davis draws inspiration from the landscape that
surrounds him as an organic muse, reflected not only in
his prints but also in his unique printing techniques and
hand-built cameras.
LOT 145
Martin Parr (British, b. 1952)
Fashion Week, Moscow
Luxury, 44 of 100
2004, Archival pigment print and book, 9 x 6 in.
$400 - $600
Courtesy of ROSEGALLERY
As a distinguished member of Magnum Photos, Parr is
a British documentary photographer. He is extensively
known as being a chronicler of our age, exacerbating
details of everyday life to allow the viewer a perspective
that only he could show.
$4,000 - $5,500
Courtesy of Jackson Fine Art and the Mark Shaw
Photographic Archive
Shaw is a fashion and advertising photographer most
noted for his work with the Kennedy family. His
freelance magazine assignments with LIFE and Vanity
Fair featured among celebrities includes Pablo Picasso,
Elizabeth Taylor, and Audrey Hepburn.
$1,000 - $1,500
Courtesy of artist and jdc Fine Art
Turounet is an esteemed professor at Grossmont
College, where his artistry work across the U.S.-Mexico
border demonstrates his immersive approach to photo
documentation.
scott b. davis (American, b. 1971)
speed queen marathon heavy duty dryer,
near las vegas, nevada
2 of 26
1999, Platinum/palladium print, 8 x 10 in.
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Mark Shaw (American, 1921-1969)
Vanity Fair Pleated Sitting Half Slip
1950, Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, 42 1/2
x 36 in.
LOT 147
Fan Ho (Chinese, b. 1937)
Rainy Day, 1958
Hong Kong Yesterday, 2 of 25
2006, Archival pigment print, 6 x 10 1/2 in.
$1,000 - $1,500
Courtesy of the artist and Themes + Projects
Using the art of photography and filmmaking, Fan Ho
creates award-winning works that play with the grandiose
drama of power and beauty.
LOT 148
Sant Khalsa (American, b. 1953)
Anza Borrego, California
Intimate Landscapes, Artist Proof
1986, Gelatin silver print, 3 1/4 x 4 3/4 in.
$800 - $1,200
Courtesy of artist and Kopeikin Gallery,
Los Angeles
A devoted educator and curator of the arts, Sant
Khalsa continues her photography work to show
complex environmental and societal issues facing
the American West.
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SILENT AUCTION
LOT 149
LOT 152
Ken Rosenthal (American, b. 1964)
Departure
The Forest, Artist Proof
2014, Archival pigment print on cotton rag,
13 1/2 x 20 in.
Bob Gruen (American, b. 1945)
John Lennon, NYC T-Shirt, NYC-1974
LOT 150
$400 - $600
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: Taking Aim:
Unforgettable Rock ‘n’ Roll Photographs Selected by
Graham Nash (2010).
Courtesy of Bob Gruen
Shortly after John Lennon moved to New York in 1971,
Gruen became John and Yoko’s personal photographer
and friend, making photos of their working life as well
as private moments.
$1,200 - $1,800
Courtesy of the artist and Etherton Gallery, Tuscon
The Forest is a series of black and white nocturnal
landscapes shot in the Selkirk Mountain range in
Washington. It is an autobiographic series, with the
landscapes functioning as metaphor for an interior
psychology space.
LOT 153
LOT 150
Ansel Adams (American, 1921-1969)
Early Morning, Merced River
Yosemite Special Edition
1950 (Reprint), Gelatin silver print made from Adams’
original negative. Printed by Alan Ross,
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
Takeshi Shikama (Japanese, b. 1948)
Fonfria #3
2 of 9
2013, Platinum/palladium print,
13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
$3,000 - $4,000
(2014)
Drawn to forests as the subject for his large format
camera, it was the “invisible world” hidden behind the
“visible” that he works to capture.
LOT 154
LOT 151
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$350 - $500
Courtesy Jeff and Patty Maysent
Alan Ross is a renowned photographer who worked
side-by-side with Ansel Adams as his photographic
assistant, and was personally selected by Ansel to print
his Yosemite Special Edition negatives.
Nigel Poor (American, b. 1963)
12.24.98 Upton & Jerald SF, CA
Found , 2 of 3
1998, Toned gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 in.
Janet Russek (American, b. 1947)
Typewriter
Memories, 2 of 10
$1,000 - $1,500
Artist Exhibition History at MOPA: Nigel Poor – Found
Objects (2001), State of Mind: A California Invitational
(2010)
Collecting everyday material from the street Poor brings
these objects back to his studio to photograph. Through
photography, the objects acquire new meanings: they
were reminiscent of anatomy, they became beautiful
sculptures, or they were clues to hidden worlds.
$1,600 - $2,400
Courtesy of the artist and Scheinbaum & Russek LTD.,
Santa Fe, NM
Russek’s work focuses on her environment; her family,
the landscape she lives in, her life events. The themes
in her work are ongoing, and, at times, overlapping.
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SILENT AUCTION
LOT 155
LOT 158
Troi Anderson (American, b. 1975)
The Grotto of Saint Francis de Assisi. Saint Michel,
Haiti.
Defiant Rite, 2 of 15
Donna J. Wan (Taiwanese, b. 1972)
At the Edge of the Lake
In the Landscape, 2 of 10
LOT 156
$1,400 - $2,100
(2014)
Courtesy of the artist and Rick Wester Fine Art, New
York, NY
This series was inspired by the paintings of the 19th
century German romantic landscape painter Casper
David Friederich, who painted people from behind to
allow the viewer to project him/herself into the scene
and experience the landscape vicariously - a visual
technique called “ruckenfigür.”
$600 - $800
This series documents ritual and religious ceremonial
practices of Haiti. Often misunderstood and maligned,
Haitian Vodou is ancestral worship that provides a
living connection with the psychic heritage of a people
and a place torn apart during the colonial slave trade.
LOT 159
Willard Van Dyke (American, 1906-1986)
Gravestone, Columbia, California
1934, Vintage Gelatin Silver Print,
9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in.
J. John Priola (American, b. 1960)
String
Nurture, 2 of 5
$4,000 - $5,500
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim
Priola’s photographic series Nurture is an ode to the
intersections of uncertain human activity and the
resolute forces of nature. He focuses his attention on
unnoticed natural events, where the interventions of
humans measure up against the persevering dignity
and ironic beauty of city plant-life.
LOT 157
Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe (American, b. 1952;
American, b. 1967)
Moonrise above Point Sublime
Reconstructing the View, 3 of 25
2008, Inkjet print, 32 x 50 in.
$3,600 - $5,400
After Ansel Adams (2014)
Courtesy of the artists
Klett and Wolfe take a playful look at rephotography—a
tool used in scientific research as a means of tracking
elemental change in the environment by taking
photographs from the same precise locations over time.
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$3,600 - $5,400
Courtesy of Susan Herzig and Paul Hertzmann,
San Francisco, CA
Van Dyke was an American filmmaker, photographer,
arts administrator, teacher, and former director
of the film department at the Museum of Modern
Art. In 1928, he apprenticed with Edward Weston
and by 1932 co-founded Group f/64, with Imogen
Cunningham, Ansel Adams, and Weston.
LOT 160
Joan Myers (American, b. 1944)
Baffin Bay (floating ice)
Fire and Ice, 2 of 15
2004, Epson print on Hahnemuhle PhotoRag Pearl,
14 1/2 x 22 in.
$1,000 - $1,500
Myers images exude a sense of expanse and the quiet
buzz that consumes the mind when one
considers something trapped between bleak and
magnificent. In 2002, the National Science Foundation
awarded Joan Myers an Antarctic Artists and Writers
Grant to photograph at McMurdo Station, surrounding
field stations, historic huts, and the South Pole.
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SILENT AUCTION
LOT 161
LOT 164
Kevin Young (American, b. 1984)
Sleepy Dune
2015, Archival pigment on cotton rag, 20 x 30 in.
Magda Biernat (Polish born American, b. 1978)
Adrift #3, Antarctica, 2013
Adrift, 1 of 15
$500 - $700
After overcoming quadriplegia that resulted from
breaking his neck in 2011, Young refocused his
photographic pursuits. His love for math, physics and
all things technical is a perfect compliment to his
creative mindset and appreciation for design.
$800 - $1,200
Courtesy of the artist and Robert Klein Gallery
Biernat is a multi-media artist whose works range from
architectural and landscape to conceptual photography
and video installations. She recently returned from a
yearlong photo project taking her from Antarctica to
Alaska, which has been featured in the New Yorker.
LOT 162
LOT 165
Diane Dammeyer (American, b. 1940)
Leopard
Lisa Robinson (American, b. 1968)
Ileuvium
Chronos, 1 of 10
$1,800 - $3,200
Diane is a landscape and philanthropic photographer
who collaborates with non-profit organizations and
individuals to bring awareness to human inequality
with the use of her images and visual story telling.
$1,600 - $2,400
Courtesy of KlompChing Gallery
Her work is a meditation on the landscape that
investigates ideas of transition and time passage.
LOT 163
Diane Dammeyer (American, b. 1940)
Zebra
$1,800 - $3,200
LOT 166
Mark Ruwedel (American, b. 1954)
Slab City #22C
Artist Proof
2008, Inkjet print, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.
$2,000 - $3,000
Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Luisotti,
Long Beach, CA
Ruwedel is an artist who has been photographing
American deserts and other remote locations for over
25 years, pursuing epic-scaled projects on railroad
construction, the landscapes of nuclear weapons,
and in this series, failed attempts to live in the harsh
environment of the desert.
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CONTRIBUTORS
AUCTIONEER
LOT 167
Michael Mulno (American, b. 1972)
Multi-Unit Residence, San Diego Avenue,
Old Town, San Diego, CA
Multi-Unit Residence, 2 of 10
2015, Gelatin silver contact print, 8 x 10 in.
$800 - $1,200
Courtesy of the artist and Joseph Bellows Gallery
Michael Mulno studied under the guidance of Nicholas
Nixon at the Massachusetts College of Art.
LOT 168
Laura Heyman (American, b. 1968)
Untitled
The Photographer’s Wife, Artist Proof
PHOTO AUCTION 2015 PRESENTED BY
$500 - $700
In this series of performance self-portraits, Heyman
takes on the role of a photographer’s muse. Never
portraying exploitive or romantic expressions, Heyman
normalizes what it means to be a photographer’s wife.
Heyman is an Associate Professor of Photography in the
Department of Transmedia at Syracuse University.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
CONTRIBUTORS
ARTISTS
HOST COMMITTEE
Alex Dorfsman
Janet Russek
Mike Mulno
Ann Poppe & Richard Opper
Janet & John McCulley
Ansel Adams
printed by Alan Ross
Jennifer Greenberg
Nigel Poor
Anonymous
Jeff & Patty Maysent
Montserrat &
José Luis Pérez Rocha
Jim Naughten
Pablo Lopez Luz
Barbara & Karl Zobell
John Mullen & Mike Brase
Natasha & John Ippolito
Beaumont Newhall
Joan Myers
Patricia Martin
Bob & Catherine Palmer
Jon Doellstedt
Olivia & Peter Farrell
Bill Armstrong
John Brinton Hogan
Paul Torounet
Judith & Stephen Smith
Pat & Lewis Judd
Bob Gruen
Joni Sternbach
Sant Khalsa
rent Woods &
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Laurie Mitchell
Katherine & Chris Kozo
Brett Weston
Josef Fischnaller
Scott B. Davis
Claudia & Octavio Salazar
Ken C. Hull
Robert Gleason
& Marc Matys
Chris Engman
Ken Rosenthal
Scott Polach
Larry Friedman
Diane Dammeyer
Kenji Wakasugi
Shigeru Yoshida
Clifford Schireson
& John Venekamp
Donna J. Wan
Kevin Cooley
Suda House
Doug Rickard
Kevin Young
Takashi Tomo-oka
Doug & Mike Starn
Douglas Dubler
Ellen Garvens
Fan Ho
Flor Garduño
Klea McKenna
Takeshi Shikama
Laura Heyman
Tamas Dezso
Leslie Starobin
Troi Anderson
Lisa Robinson
Ville Kansanen
Magda Biernat
Willard Van Dyke
Garry Fabian Miller
Mark Shaw
Yao Lu
Han Nguyen
Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe
Yoko Ono
Hendrik Kerstens
Mark Ruwedel
Ysabel LeMay
Henry Diltz
Martin Parr
Yu Xiao
Holly Roberts
Matthew Brandt Zoe Zimmerman
J. John Priola
Max Kellenberger
Jane Olin
Michael Lundgren
Laura Galinson
& Jodi Diamond
Deb Finnegan & John Biever
Lia Lund & Scott Kivel
Suda House
Diane & Rod Dammeyer
Lisette & Mick Farrell
Suzan & Gad Shaanan
Elizabeth Gabriel Taft
Teri & Tom Evons
Ellen & David Dolgen
Marie Tartar
& Steve Eilenberg
Gail & Ralph Bryan
Marilyn & Bob Mackie
Vivien & Jeffrey Ressler
Gordon & Jennifer Wangers
Michael & Sharon Blasgen
Zoraida & Gary Payne
Hannah Devine
& Allard Jansen
Miles Grant &
Tatiana Zunshine
Sheryl & Harvey White
Tracy & John Downing
AUCTIONEER
Andrea Fiuczynski
PRINTING
798 Photo Gallery
Ippodo Gallery
Robert Klein Gallery
David Smith
Catherine Edelman Gallery
Jackson Fine Art
Robert Koch Gallery
DS Printing Solutions, Inc.
Corden Potts Gallery jdc Fine Art
Rose Gallery Craig Krull Gallery
Jeff & Patty Maysent
Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd
Danziger Gallery Joseph Bellows Gallery
Stux Gallery dnj Gallery
KlompChing Gallery Etherton Gallery
Kopeikin Gallery
Susan Herzig &
Paul Hertzmann Gallery Luisotti
Luis De Jesus
Themes + Projects Gallery Paule Anglim
Michael Dawson Gallery
Throckmorton
Genesis Publications Ltd
Morrison Hotel Gallery Von Lintel Gallery
Hackelbury Fine Art
Rick Wester Fine Art
Yossi Milo Gallery MOPA PHOTO AUCTION 2015
Scott & Lynn Himelstein
Debby & Hal Jacobs
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PAYMENT PROCEDURES
MOPA is pleased to feature an express checkout procedure. Bidders who provide credit card
information at check-in are registered for express checkout. At the conclusion of the evening,
the bidder’s credit card will be automatically charged for the winning works:
PLEASE NOTE
• All sales are final. Refunds or exchanges are not allowed.
• Payment for all items must be made on the evening of the auction.
• Full payment must be made before any lot is removed from the museum premises.
• Check out will begin at approximately 9:00 p.m. and remain open through the close of
the event.
• Payment may be made by cash, check or credit card (VISA and MasterCard accepted). Checks should be made payable to the Museum of Photographic Arts.
• Tax applicability: On the date of sale, purchasers shall be required to pay all applicable state and local retail sales taxes. The California sales tax of 8.00% shall apply to the full purchase price of all Photo Auction items.
•
Successful bidders shall make every effort to remove their winning lot at the end of the evening. If the artwork is too large, pickup hours will be available during the month of October on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 1 p.m. – 4 p.m., and Saturday, October 17, between 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Please check in with the front desk, no appointment necessary. If additional arrangements are required, contact MOPA’s Manager of Collections & Exhibitions or other arrangements may be made with a professional art mover.
• Selected works include free local delivery and basic installation services courtesy of ArtWorks San Diego. Winners of the selected lots will be contacted by ArtWorks San Diego on Friday, October 16, to schedule delivery.
CONDITIONS OF SALE
The property offered in this sale will be offered and sold by the Museum of Photographic Arts
(MOPA). Any questions should be directed to MOPA and not to Sotheby’s, which serves merely
as auctioneer for MOPA in conducting the auction sale and participates on the following terms
and conditions, as amended by any posted notices or oral announcements during the sale,
which govern the sale of all the property at the auction:
1.(a) Neither Sotheby’s nor MOPA assume any risk, liability, or responsibility for the authenticity
of the authorship of any property offered at this auction (that is, the identity of the creator or the
period, culture, source or origin, as the case may be, with which the creation of any property is
identified).
1.(b) All property is sold “as is” and neither Sotheby’s nor MOPA makes any representations
or warranties of any kind of nature, expressed or implied, with respect to the property, and in
no event shall either of them be responsible for the correctness of any catalogue or notices
or descriptions of property, nor be deemed to have made any representations or warranty
of physical condition, size, quality, rarity, importance, genuineness attribution, authenticity,
provenance, or historical relevance of the property. No statement in any catalogue, notice or
description made at the sale in any bill of sale invoice or elsewhere, shall be deemed such as
representation or warranty or any assumption of liability. Neither Sotheby’s nor MOPA makes
any representation or warranty, expressed or implied, as to whether the purchaser acquires
any reproduction rights in the property. Prospective bidders should inspect the property before
bidding to determine its condition, size, and whether or not it has been repaired or restored.
2. Any property may be withdrawn by Sotheby’s or MOPA at any time before the actual sale
without any liability.
3. Sotheby’s and MOPA reserve the right to reject a bid from any bidder. The highest bidder
acknowledged by the auctioneer shall be the purchaser. In the event of any dispute between
bidders, the auctioneer shall have sole and final discretion either to determine the successful
bidder or to re-offer and resell the article in dispute. If any dispute arises after the sale, MOPA’s
sale records shall be conclusive at all times.
4. If the auctioneer determines that any opening bid is not commensurate with the value of the
article offered, he/she may reject the same and withdraw the article from sale, and if, having
acknowledged an opening bid, he/she decided that any advance thereafter is insufficient, he/
she may reject the advance.
5. On the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, the highest bidder shall be deemed to have
purchased the offered lot subject to all of the conditions set forth herein and thereupon (a)
assumes the risk and responsibility thereof (including without limitation damages to frames
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or glass covering prints), (b) will sign a confirmation of purchase thereof and (c) will pay the
full purchase price therefore or such part as MOPA may require. All property shall be removed
from MOPA’s premises by the purchaser at his/her expense no later than five (5) business
days following the sale, and if not so removed, will be stored by MOPA at the expense of the
purchaser for the account, risk and expense of the purchaser and such added charges will then
be added to the purchase price of the object. If the foregoing conditions and other applicable
conditions are not compiled with, in addition to other remedies available to MOPA by law,
including, without limitation, the right to hold the purchaser liable for the bid price, MOPA at
their option may either (a) cancel the sale, or (b) resell the property on three days notice to
the purchaser and for the account and risk of the purchaser, either publicly or privately, and in
such event the purchaser shall be liable for payment of any deficiency, all other charged due
hereunder and incidental damages. MOPA shall have the rights afforded a secured party under
the California Commercial Code with respect to such property, and MOPA may apply against
such obligations all monies or other property help or received by MOPA for the account of, or
due from them to, such purchaser.
6. Payment should be made payable to MOPA. MOPA may give the door of the work and/or the
artist who created it under the name and address of the final purchaser.
7. Unless exempted by law, the purchaser will be required to apply the California state and local
sales tax or any applicable compensating use tax of another sate on the total purchase price.
8. MOPA is not responsible for the acts or omissions of carrier or packers of purchased lots,
whether or not recommended by them. Packing and handling of purchased lots by MOPA is
at the entire risk of the purchaser. In no event will MOPA’s liability to a purchaser exceed the
purchase price actually paid.
DUANE MICHALS
9. The Conditions of Sale as well as the purchaser’s and Sotheby’s and MOPA’s respective
rights and obligations hereunder shall be governed by and construed and enforced in
accordance with the laws of the State of California. By bidding at an auction, whether present
in person or by an agent, order bid, or other means, the purchaser shall be deemed to have
consented to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts of the State of California.
10. In the case of absentee bids or bids transmitted by telephone, Sotheby’s and MOPA are not
responsible for any error or omissions in connection with such bids.
YOU DON’T TAKE
A PHOTOGRAPH,
YOU MAKE IT.
11. All lots are offered for sale subject to a reserve, which is the confidential minimum price
below which such lot will not be sold. Sotheby’s may implement such reserve by bidding up to
the reserve on behalf of MOPA.
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