"Sie Kommen" (Dressed) & (Naked), Paris

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HELMUT NEWTON (BORN 1920)
"Sie Kommen" (Dressed) & (Naked), Paris
Unique gelatin silver print diptych. 1981. Each signed, titled, dated and numbered 1/15 in pencil on the verso.
Each approximately 63½ x 48in. (161.2 x 122cm.) Each framed. (2)

Literature

See: Taschen, Helmut Newton: Work, pp.188-189 (for the final version of both images).

Lot Essay

Sie Kommen - They Are Coming - is part of Newton's Big
Nude series. His inspiration for the work came from seeing full length, life size "Wanted" posters of the Baader-Meinhof Gang - left wing Germany terrorists active from 1968-1977 - in the offices of the Special Police Squad. The original working title for the series was The Terrorist; Newton changed it to Big Nudes.

While the photographs are each editioned 1/15 the artist confirms that they are unique photographs printed in Paris in 1981. No other prints were made of the contact sheet for Sie Kommen.

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