In the world of Instagram and social media, the desire for high quality, well-composed photographs is only increasing. We’re forever blasted with images and media that comes in the form of either a selfie or a highly-edited image to show off one’s best angle… but the work by photography experts? That’s what we’re all in the market for.
Now, superlative snaps are up for grabs at Artsnap. At any one time, art dealer Artsnap has hundreds of artworks up for sale, including numerous high quality photographs and photographic prints. Let’s take a look at some of their pieces on offer.
Dreaming of a serene beach, a beautiful blue sky, and a holiday somewhere away from the frightfully cold weather?
Massimo Vitali’s Calambrone (2006) is an offset lithograph printed in colours on 300gsm Consort Royal paper. It measures 70 x 90 cm and is an edition of 120 + 20 artist proofs. It is stamped with artist ink stamp and numbered on verso.
Another beach scene from Vitali, though this one a little more crowded and perhaps taking from our desire for a beach holiday, is Bagni Lido (2006). This work is also an offset lithograph printed in colours on 300gsm Consort Royal paper, but measures 83 x 103 cm. It is an edition of 120 + 20 AP and is stamped with artist ink and numbered on verso the U.S.A.
In complete opposition to a melting beach scene, this work depicts Being on the Summit of Cotopaxi at a Sunrise in South America in 1998. It is an offset lithograph, 60 x 80 cm, part of an edition of 60, and is signed and numbered.
Andy Warhol is one of the foremost artists of the 20th century, and the father of Pop Art. Yet, he is also known for his photography.
Depicted here is part-personal, part-voyeuristic Sex Parts & Torsos. It is a 1977 work and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.
Warhol photographed a wide array of friends and assistants who worked in The Factory, but he also relied frequently on Victor Hugo (the set designer boyfriend of Halston), who would seek out young men from bars in the Meatpacking District in what was then New York’s most decadent red-light district. Hugo would lure these subjects back for portrait settings with Warhol in The Factory.
This works come from the Private Collection of James Hedges, the largest private collector of Warhol photography in the world. Hedges famously exhibited a grid of 81 of these works at The Grand Palais in Paris in 2012, which garnered enormous critical acclaim in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Financial Times, and numerous other publications.
Finally, we end this selection with Catherine Opie’s From Here to There (2009). Opie is an influential contemporary American photographer best known for her colourful portraits. She typically focuses on the strata of society, but in this 15.25 x 15.25 cm print depicts a desolate harbour at either sunset or sunrise: the end or beginning of a working day.
