1974 German/ French Color Photo "Giant & Nude" by Helmut Newton SYGMA (Yir)

Up for sale from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii this 1975 German/French color photo on Kodak paper that is titled "Giant and Nude Paris, 1974". The back of the photo shows the name of the artist Helmut Newton (1920-2004) and SYGMA is the name of a legendary photo agency that closed down some years back. The estate from which this and two other photos are coming from also had the COA (photo shown) that confirmed that three photos were purchased in 2007 in Hong Kong via Gailord Bovrisse Art Conceptual for $3,500. The photo is unsigned but is certainly not just a reprint but a original authorized reprint. The condition is described above - for more details please check the photos. This print will be shipped flat.


Measurements:

Print 10 3/16 inches x 6.75 inches

Sheet 11.75 inches x 8 inches


More about the artist:

Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter, was born October 31, 1920 in Berlin, Germany. He was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women.

Newton attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. He left Germany on December 5, 1938. At Trieste, he boarded the 'Conte Rosso' (along with about two hundred others escaping the Nazis) intending to journey to China. After arriving in Singapore he decided to remain as a reporter for the Straits Times and worked as a portrait photographer.

Newton was interned by British authorities while in Singapore, and was sent to Australia on board the 'Queen Mary', arriving in Sydney on September 27, 1940. In 1945 he became an Australian citizen, and changed his name to Newton in 1946. In 1948 he married actress June Browne, who performed under the stage-name 'June Brunell'.

In 1946, Newton set up a studio in fashionable Flinders Lane and worked primarily on fashion photography in the affluent post-war years. He shared his first joint exhibition in May 1953 with Wolfgang Sievers, a German refugee like himself who had also served in the same Company. The exhibition of New Visions in Photography was held at the Federal Hotel in Collins Street and was probably the first glimpse of New Objectivity photography in Australia. Newton went into partnership with Henry Talbot, a fellow German Jew who had also been interned at Tatura, and his association with the studio continued even after 1957 when he left Australia for London. The studio was renamed 'Helmut Newton and Henry Talbot'.

Newton's growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956. He won a twelve-month contract with British Vogue and he left for London in February 1957, leaving Talbot to manage the business. He left the magazine before the end of his contract and went to Paris where he worked for French and German magazines. He returned to Melbourne in March 1959 to a contract for Australian Vogue.

He settled in Paris in 1961 and continued to work as a fashion photographer. His works appeared in magazines including, most significantly, French Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. Newton shot a number of pictorials for Playboy, including pictorials of Nastassia Kinski and Kristine DeBell .

In his later life, Newton lived in Monte Carlo and Los Angeles. He was killed when his car hit a wall on January 23, 2004 in the driveway of the famous Chateau Marmont, the hotel on Sunset Boulevard which had for several years served as his residence in Southern California.

Condition: 

The photograph is in excellent condition in its original plastic sleeve, you will receive additionally a copy of the COA from Gailord Bovrisse Art Conceptual