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Photography auctions appeal particularly to a younger clientele looking to collect artworks at affordable prices. The market for photographs is growing in importance due to a new, broader group of collectors. Movement studies by Eadweard Muybridge, Native American portraits by Edward Curtis, early photographs by Jean-Gabriel Eynard or James Anderson, photographs of the Bauhaus movement by Lázló Moholy-Nagy, Theodore Lux Feininger and Herbert Bayer, and avant-garde photographs by Man Ray and Frantisek Drtikol are already among the classics of the field.

Classical-modern photographs up to contemporary art photographs by Swiss artists such as Albert Steiner, Emil Meerkämper, Adolphe Braun, Robert Frank, René Burri, Balthasar Burkhard, René Groebli, Hannes Schmied, Fischli-Weiss are represented as well as works by international artists such as Horst P. Horst, Ansel Adams, Henri-Cartier Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman.

Gabriel Müller, our specialist and department head for Photography, will be pleased to appraise and value your works in view of a possible auction consignment. Our Photography auctions are held in July and December. Consignments are accepted until late April and late September.



Valuations / Consignments

If you wish to consign to one of our auctions, we will value your artworks free of charge. Please send us photos if possible, or call us. We will arrange an appointment to view your property at your home or in one of our offices in Zurich, Geneva, Florence, Munich or Düsseldorf. You will then receive our auction estimates so that you can make your decision.

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Contact

Gabriel Müller

mueller@kollerauctions.com
+41 44 445 63 40


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Cyril Himmer
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+41 22 311 03 85

Koller Munich

Fiona Seidler
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+49 89 22 802 766

Koller Düsseldorf

Ulrike Gruben
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+49 211 30 14 36 38

Koller Italy

Lapo Bacarelli
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+39 366 994 1836

Koller China

Jing Li
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+86 135 2039 8057

Top results from past sales

SELECTED RESULTS Photography

WOLFGANG TILLMANS

(Remscheid/ Nordrhein-Westfalen 1968–lives in London, among other places)
"Still life, yellow tomatoes", 1995.
Chromogenic colour print.
27.3 × 37.5 cm.
The verso fully signed, titled, dated "ph 1095 pr. WT 896" and numbered 3/10 (+1 AP). Mounted, framed.

CHF 5 625 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid131 / 5727
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WOLFGANG TILLMANS
WOLFGANG TILLMANS

CHF 5 625

NELLY (auch Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari)

(Aydin 1899–1998 Athens)
"Athènes - 'Nicolska' dansant sur le Parthénon", 1929.
Silver bromide gelatin print. Vintage. Double mounted on card.
Image 22 × 28 cm.
Signed and titled on the mount below the image.

CHF 38 750 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

Worldrecord for this artist
ibid131 / 5730*
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NELLY (auch Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari)
NELLY (auch Elli Sougioultzoglou-Seraidari)

CHF 38 750

MAN RAY

(Philadelphia 1890–1976 Paris)
Nusch and Addy, (c. 1938).
Gelatin silver print. Vintage.
24 × 17 cm.
The verso monogramed, inscribed and stamped. Matted, framed. Gallery label on the back of the frame.

CHF 12 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid131 / 5738
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MAN RAY
MAN RAY

CHF 12 500

MAN RAY

(Philadelphia 1890–1976 Paris)
Nusch Eluard wearing Schiaparelli, 1936.
Gelatin silver print. Vintage.
23 × 17.8 cm.
The verso annotated in pencil: "Nusch Eluard, mars 1936, les années bazaar p.91". Matted, framed.

CHF 9 000 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid131 / 5756
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MAN RAY
MAN RAY

CHF 9 000

LEWIS BALTZ

(Newport Beach 1945–2014 Paris)
"Langstrasse", Zurich, 1997. Triptych.
Cibachrome on Dibond under Diasec.
82 × 74.3 cm, 96 × 103.1 cm, 85 × 99 cm.
From an edition 1/1.

CHF 12 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid131 / 5802
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LEWIS BALTZ
LEWIS BALTZ

CHF 12 500

IRIS HUTEGGER

(Schladming 1964-lives and works in Basel)
LS Nr. 2106–532, 2021.
Gelatin silver print, coloured threads.
Window 70 × 108 cm; sheet 75 × 110 cm.
Fully signed in the lower right corner. Matted, framed. With loosely enclosed "Certificate of authenticity".

CHF 7 750 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid128 / 5713
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IRIS HUTEGGER
IRIS HUTEGGER

CHF 7 750

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

(Taito 1948–lives and works in New York)
Time Exposed, 1991. Portfolio of 51 original offset prints after photographs.
Kyoto, Kyoto Shoin Co., 1991. Prints 24 × 31 cm and 5 × 38 cm (1); sheet 35 × 46.4 cm; box 35.5 × 46.5 cm. Individually mounted on cardboard with blind-stamped title, date and numbering. (5) leaves, plates. Loosely laid in original aluminium case with printed original cardboard slipcase. - Fully signed by the artist on title. One of 500 copies.

CHF 25 000 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid128 / 5724
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

CHF 25 000

ROMAN SIGNER

(Appenzell 1938–lives and works in St. Gallen)
Black cloth, 1994. 6 original photographs.
Gelatin silver prints on baryta paper.
Each 29.5 × 22 cm.
Individually matted and framed. Each signed "R. Signer", numbered 2/10, dated and inscribed by the artist "Foto 1(-6)" on the verso of the frame.

CHF 16 250 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid128 / 5746
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ROMAN SIGNER
ROMAN SIGNER

CHF 16 250

CAO FEI

(Guangzhou 1978–lives and works in Beijing)
"My future is not a dream 05", 2006.
Chromogenic colour print on Kodak professional digital paper.
Image 120 × 150 cm; Sheet 127 × 156 cm.
Fully signed, titled, numbered 5/12 and dated on the verso.

CHF 9 000 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid128 / 5754
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CAO FEI
CAO FEI

CHF 9 000

MAN RAY

(Philadelphia 1890–1976 Paris)
Marie Berthe Ernst, Max Ernst, Lee Miller und Man Ray, around 1932.
Gelatin silver print. Vintage.
22.7 × 16.6 cm.
Signed lower right, inscribed on the verso (by another hand).

CHF 8 500 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.

ibid128 / 5824
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MAN RAY
MAN RAY

CHF 8 500