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Helmut Newton Sie Kommen, The Beginning of 'The Naked and Dressed', Paris 1981 Polaroid print. 10.8 x 8.5 cm (4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.) Signed in ink and annotated '220%' in pencil on the verso.
Provenance Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 2 October 2012, lot 65 Literature Helmut Newton Private Property, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1989, pl. 37 Helmut Newton Big Nudes, Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1990, n.p. M. Harrison, Appearances: Fashion Photography since 1945, New York: Rizzoli, 1991, p. 241 Helmut Newton Pages from the Glossies, Facsimiles 1956–1998, Göttingen: Steidl, 1998, p. 460 M. Heiting, ed., Helmut Newton Work, Cologne: Taschen, 2000, p. 189 French Vogue, Paris, November 1981 for all, a variant Artist Bio Helmut Newton German • 1920 - 2004 Helmut Newton's distinct style of eroticism and highly produced images was deemed rebellious and revolutionary in its time, as he turned the expected notion of beauty, depicted by passive and submissive women, on its head. Depicting his models as strong and powerful women, Newton reversed gender stereotypes and examined society's understanding of female desire. Newton created a working space for his models that was part decadent and part unorthodox — a safe microcosm in which fantasies became reality. And perhaps most famously of all, Newton engendered an environment in which his female models claimed the space around them with unapologetic poise and commanding sensuality. His almost cinematic compositions provided a hyper-real backdrop for the provocative images of sculptural, larger-than-life women, and enhanced the themes of voyeurism and fetishism that run throughout his work. View More Works