Lot 27

Clarence Street Lighthouse Gallery, Melbourne 1982
Private collection, Melbourne

Arnold Newman, Lighthouse Gallery, Melbourne, 1982
Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met, New York, 27 April – 1 August 2010 (another impression)
Arnold Newman: One Hundred, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 10 May - 30 June 2018 (another impression)

Heisler, G., Autographed Portraits by Arnold Newman, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York 2007, front cover (illustrated, another impression)
Sobieszek, Robert A., Arnold Newman, One Mind's Eye, Little Brown & Co, Boston 1974, p. 11 (illustrated, another impression)
Geldzahler, H., Arnold Newman, Artists Portraits from Four Decades, Grand Central Publishing, Boston, 1980, p. 49 (illustrated, another impression)
Mißelbeck, R., Arnold Newman, Selected Photographs, Locher Cologne 1998, p. 29 (illustrated, another impression)
Brookman, P., Arnold Newman, Taschen Publishing, Cologne, 2000, p. 91 (illustrated, another impression)
Stremmel, K., Ichundichundich (German Edition): Picasso im Fotoporträt, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, 2011, p. 32 (illustrated, another impression)

In a career that spanned over 50 years, Arnold Newman is acknowledged and admired to be a significant contributor to the history of photography. Often referred to as the Father of the Environmental Portrait, his work is distinguished by a careful use of background which succeeds to create an entire narrative within a single still frame. "I don't just want to make a photograph with some things in the background. The surroundings had to add to the composition and the understanding of the person. No matter who the subject was, it had to be an interesting photograph. Just to simply do a portrait of a famous person doesn't mean a thing." (The Artist).
His best known portraits include Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau and Alexander Calder.
Newman's work is collected and exhibited in all major museums and collections around the world.

Hannah Ryan
Art Specialist

Other impressions of this print are currently held in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; The Met, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota.