February Auction Action

The February photography auctions are timed to coincide with the AIPAD Photo Show being held this weekend here in NYC. This week you have the chance to visit the auction houses and review the lots before the pieces go their separate ways. Most significant is the collection from the Met being sold by Sotheby's, which dwarfed the others in both estimated sales and cultural importance. If the Steichen goes for high estimate or more it will be a record, I believe.

Christie's
Photographs
Tues, Feb 14, 10:00 AM & 2:00 PM
High Estimate: Peter Beard, Portraits, London/Paris/Nairobi, Collected at Hog Ranch, 1960s-1970s
Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
$30-50,000, each

Exhibition
Feb 10-13

Location
20 Rockefeller Plaza
(212) 123-4567

Sotheby's (registration required)
Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Including Works from the Gilman Paper Company Collection
Tues, Feb 14, 6:00 PM
Weds, Feb 15, 10:15 AM
High Estimate: Edward Steichen, The Pond - Moonlight, $700,000-1,000,000

Exhibition
Feb 8-14

Location
1334 York Ave, at 72nd St
(212) 606-7000

Swann Galleries
100 Fine Photographs (actually 137+)
Feb 16, 1:30PM
High Estimate: Pierre-Henri Puiseux & Maurice Loewy, Atlas Photographique de la Lune, $40-50,000

Exhibition
Feb 11, 13-16
Gallery Walk, Feb 11

Location
104 E 25th St
(212) 254-4710