Photographic masterpieces raise $250,000 for The Global Fund for Children
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The Financial Times and The Global Fund for Children hosted the first charity photography auction in the US on Tuesday, in association with Christie’s, New York, to mark the finale of the FT’s Seasonal Appeal 2012-13. The evening raised $250,000 in aid of The Global Fund for Children, including matched funding from the Pearson Foundation and GFC sponsors.
Respected auctioneer Jussi Pylkkänen, head of Christie’s Europe, auctioned off 17 iconic photographs generously donated by Steve McCurry, Frank Worth, Robert Capa, Nadav Kander and others.
Ranging from the 1950s to the present, photos included were “Ali versus The Beatles,” a signed limited-edition print that sold for $11,000, and Melvin Sokolsky’s “Bubble over New York, 1963,” which raised $16,000.
Lot 1 Jason Hawkes THE SHARD 2012, 33 x 50 in. digital c-type print, signed, mounted and framed.
Lot 2 Raghu Rai/Magnum Photos UNTITLED, 2010, Delhi, India, 28 x19.25 in. archival matt pigment print, signed bottom right corner, open edition, certificate of authenticity, framed and mounted.
Lot 3 Burt Glinn/Magnum Photos ANDY WARHOL, EDIE SEDGWICK AND CHUCK WEIN, 1965, 16 x 20 in. Pablo Inero print, estate stamped, open edition, framed.
Lot 04 Wally Pacholka/AstroPics.com YOSEMITE WINTER NIGHT 2012, 24 x 36 in. printed on canvas, signed, edition 1 of 250, mounted and framed.
Lot 5 Susan Meiselas/Magnum Photos MASK OF NICARAGUA 1978 11 x 14 in, c-type print, open edition, signed, mounted and framed.
Lot 06 Frank Worth Estate/courtesy of CapitalArt.com ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 11 x 14 in. archival pigment print, estate stamped, edition 1 of 245, mounted and framed.
Lot 7 Jesse Fleming/Anat Ebgi Gallery UNKNOWN FORREST (WHITE) 2009, 40 x 60 in. chromogenic c-print, signed, edition 2 of 3 with 2 AP, mounted and framed.
Lot 8 David Hurn/Magnum Photos JANE FONDA AND ROGER VADIM. Vadim preparing Jane’s costume during the making of the film Barbarella, 1967. 17 x 22 in. archival museo silver print, edition 7 of 30, mounted and framed.
Lot 9 Massimo Vitali GMT-01, 2011 34.6 x 40.9 in. c-print facemounted under plexi, signed edition label, edition AP4 of edition, 35 plus 5AP, mounted and framed.
Lot 10 Slim Aarons/Getty Images JOAN COLLINS RELAXES 1955 20 x 24 in. lambda print, estate stamped, edition 8 of 150, mounted and framed.
Lot 11 Robert Capa/International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos PABLO PICASSO AND HIS SON CLAUDE AT THE BEACH, GOLFE-JUAN, FRANCE, AUGUST 1948, 12.5 x 18.8 in. gelatin silver print, open edition one of a very limited (but unnumbered) group of collectors prints that Cornell Capa had printed in the 1980s for the estate of his brother, mounted and framed.
LOT 12 Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND (6 December 1979), sequence of three 5.5 x 8 in. vintage silver prints, signed in pencil on the recto of the mount, edition 8 of 25, framed.
LOT 13 Nadav Kander BARACK OBAMA III, 20 x 26 in. archival chromogenic print, signed edition label, edition 2 of 5, mounted and framed.
Lot 14 Frank Worth Estate/courtesy of CapitalArt.com, MARILYN MONROE 1953, 11 x 14 in. archival pigment print, estate stamped, edition 1 of 245, mounted and framed.
LOT 15 Steve McCurry/Magnum Photos BOY IN MID-FLIGHT, JODHPUR, INDIA 2007, 16 x 20 in. signed, c-print on Fuji crystal archival print, mounted and framed.
Lot 16 Melvin Sokolsky, BUBBLE OVER NEW YORK, 1963 42 x 32 in. archival pigment print, signed on verso, edition 14 of 25, framed.
Lot 17 Chris Smith ALI VERSUS THE BEATLES 1964, 16 x 20 in. Silver gelatin fibre based print Limited edition 62/100, signed, mounted and framed,
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