Lot #1344: HELMUT NEWTON - Sie Kommen, Naked ("They Are Coming") - Original vintage silver gelatin photograph

 

Artist: Helmut Newton (German/Australian, 1920-2004).
Title: "Sie Kommen, Naked ("They Are Coming") [SGP - Signed by Newton & Allais]".
Medium: Original vintage silver gelatin photograph.
Date: Composed 1981. Printed c1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 x 8 in. (254 x 203 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $2,400
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $3,000/4,000
Lot Note(s): Hand-signed by Newton in black marker, lower right; hand-signed and with extensive annotations in blue marker beneath the image by Henriette Allais. Edition size (if any) unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Full margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition.
Comment(s): Allais is the woman with her arms crossed at the far left of the image. Under her signature she has printed the word “Undressed.” To the right she has printed “Helmut Newton Icon 1979-1981” and “Miss March [‘Playboy’ magazine] 1980.” Allais also was the cover girl of Helmut Newton's oversized Taschen book, “Sumo.” Image originally created for French Vogue, Paris. Copyright © The Helmut Newton Foundation. [30702-2-2400-NA]