Julia on Sunset Strip...

Claes Britton | Apr 27, 2011 | 0 comments

BrittonBritton is a partner in Stockholms Auktionsverk Fotografi, the first ever major quality auction sale exclusively for photography in the Sweden.

It is to meet a steadily increasing domestic and international interest and demand that our dear friends, clients and partners at Stockholms Auktionsverk, the world's oldest auction house, this season has ventured to launch the first ever major quality auction exclusively for photography in Sweden, with its own catalogue. The show, which is staged together with the show for the auction Contemporary, in the lower floor of the Stockholms Auktionsverk premises on Nybrogatan in the Östermalm district, opens Friday 29 April, with the VIP opening on Thusday night. The auction is held on 4 May.

BrittonBritton has been in from the beginning on this venture, together with two of Sweden's leading experts of photography - Leif Wigh, the longtime Director of the Museum of Photography at the Modern Museum, and Lennart Durehed, the master still-life photographer and Irving Penn's former favorite assistant, who operated the groundbreaking Camera Obscura photography gallery here in Stockholm togerther with our dear friend Lars Hall back in the late seventies and early eighties. We look forward with excitement to the sale and are proud of the catalogue, which includes many of the greatest names from the photographic histrory from antique times up to the present. We didn't excactly object that our dear friend and professional big brother Mikael Jansson's classic portrait of Julia Robert, shot on the roof terrace of hotel Chatau Marmont in Hollywood in 2001, was selected for the magazine cover...

View the catalogue on www.auktionsverket.se (the website which we are currently revamping).

PS. We we’re of course most pleased that "our" cover image, Mikael Jansson’s Julia on Sunset Strip, sold for SEK 180,000, more than double the announced price in yesterday’s historic auction, in a sale involving a number of bidders in various media. DS.

Julia on Sunset Strip...

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