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Anyone interested in photography will be pleased to learn of this pop-art photo exhibition being presented next week for two days only in Los Angeles.
Prior to this major auction, Sotheby’s Los Angeles will hold a public preview featuring highlights from 175 Masterworks to Celebrate 175 Years of Photography, a single owner sale from the legendary collection of Howard Stein (1926-2011)—considered one of the most significant collections of photographs in private hands today.
On view November 5-6 at the Sotheby’s Los Angeles Gallery, 175 Masterworks To Celebrate 175 Years Of Photography: Property from Joy of Giving Something Foundation presents highlights from the personal collection of Howard Stein and will feature photographs from photography’s earliest years in the 1840s to contemporary 21st Century color images.
Highlights include works from the medium’s most important practitioners including Julia Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Gustave Le Gray, August Sander, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, among others.
175 Masterworks To Celebrate 175 Years Of Photography: Property from Joy of Giving Something Foundation
November 5, 2014
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
November 6, 2014
10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
This event is free to the public.
Sotheby’s Los Angeles
9200 West Sunset Boulevard
Suite 170
Los Angeles, CA 90069
Tel: (310) 274-0340
Valet Parking available on Cory Avenue.
Sotheby’s has been uniting collectors with world-class works of art since 1744. Sotheby’s became the first international auction house when it expanded from London to New York (1955), the first to conduct sales in Hong Kong (1973) and France (2001), and the first international fine art auction house in China (2012). Today, Sotheby’s presents auctions in nine different salesrooms, including New York, London, Hong Kong and Paris, and Sotheby’s BidNow program allows visitors to view all auctions live online and place bids in real-time from anywhere in the world. Sotheby’s offers collectors the resources of Sotheby’s Financial Services, the world’s only full-service art financing company, as well as private sale opportunities in more than 70 categories, including S|2, the gallery arm of Sotheby’s Contemporary Art department, as well as Sotheby’s Diamonds and Sotheby’s Wine. Sotheby’s has a global network of 90 offices in 40 countries and is the oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (BID).
