"Auction & Exhibition"

Winter Edition, 2009 A quarterly newsletter by artist/dealer Lahary Pittman for collectors, artists & curators

Andr de Dienes was born in 1913 in Transylvania (now Romania). Following his mother's suicide he left Currently @Auction home at 15 and traveled across Europe, mostly by foot, ending up in Tunisia, Title: Untitled (1930's where he learned to paint and bought his first camera, model changing) a 35mm Retina. In 1933 de Dienes arrived in Paris to Artist: Andr de Dienes study art. He worked for the Associated Press until 1936, Year: 1938 when Parisian couturier Medium: Warmtone Gelatin Captain Molyneux encouraged him to become a Silver Print fashion photographer. In Size: 13x10 5/8"; 'Unique 1938, with the help of Esquire magazine editor Arnold Gingrich, he one of a kind' emigrated to the US and settled in New York working I am placing this rare, 'signed' 72 for Esquire, Vogue & Life. In year old Andr de Dienes print up 1944 he moved his studio to for sale by the photographer who Hollywood and met Marilyn discovered Norma Jean Baker Monroe in 45, the onset of (Marilyn Monroe), along with the her tragic fairytale life in launch of this winter newsletter. modeling and acting. They There are less than 200 'signed' were briefly engaged and de de Dienes prints left in the world, Dienes went on to generate and this print pre-dates his twenty-four books on nudes introduction to Monroe by published in the US, England several years. and Germany. He is also credited with the most magazine covers in the world featuring photographs of Monroe. The artist is widely traded; The ArtFact auction house database has 192 de Dienes auctions

worldwide, and a search on ArtNet produces a total of 113 past auctions.

Sold @Auction Title: IceFall

Artist: Lahary Pittman Year: 2006 Medium: Gelatin Silver Size:10 Size:10 x 8"
This magnificent eyecatching formation was found along the Upper Delaware River of the western Catskills, a national protected area by the Dept. of the Interior. "IceFall" is a 10x8" gelatin silver print on double weight glossy fiber paper that was handmade in a Print traditional wet darkroom.

Having grown up in "Tornado Alley" I have been fascinated since childhood with natural phenomena, This ice study is from my IceFall including the austere, stately beauty Essay and depicts a surrealistic, of ice. It was my good fortune that natural setting from my series during the Winter Olympics in "Upper Delaware Vancouver that a west coast River". IceFall features an collector found favor with this incredible 16 foot ice image to add to his collection structure that literally ends with of winter landscapes. a "frozen splash" against the ground.

Sold @Auction Title: Buttercups Artist: Ramona Jan Year: 2007

As such these atmospheric attributes continue to lure collectors to her Pennsylvania studio asking for more of board what could be coined as "diffusionism", a soft-focus technique Jan employs that is Size: 9 x 7 x 9/16" reminiscent of, yet entirely different than, "pointillism". In her own words, "I do not use models as many flower painters do. Ramona Jan trained with Instead, I must recall from memory their exponents of the School of beauty. When I paint still life flowers, I Visual Arts, Art Students League enter the world of my garden. Of course, and Harvard Art School. Her oil my garden is alive and active in the paintings are created in a subtle summer but in the winter I cannot put my stylistic manner that expresses hand into the soil and so must apply it to her individualism and clearly canvas instead. During the hours of sets her work apart from painting I go into a dream-like state and

Medium: Oil on gesso

contemporaries. While American call upon the flowers to appear". painters often feel obligated to pass through an impressionistic phase in their careers, Jan has instead created an inventive, intimate still life collection of florals characterized by beautifully "diffused" effects.

PS 158 Auction Title: Untitled (Velvet Revolution) Artist: Norm Baugher Year: 2009 Medium: Gelatin Silver Print
Norman Baugher, while residing in a small town in Texas, began photographing architecture and abstracts in 1977. Due to his passion for adventure and photography, he has since traveled the globe to such diverse locations as the Amazon rainforest, Venice, and most recently, Prague. Norman shot this grand vision of Prague in the early morning of the eve of the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution. His images document a sense of presence. Like Ansel Adams, he believes that there are two people in a photograph--the one behind the camera, and the one viewing it. He uses a 6 by 7 camera to create fine art black & white film prints. His mentor, Elliot Landy, documented the music scene which culminated with the 1969 Woodstock Festival, of which he was the official photographer. Norman was instrumental in arranging and contributing to fine photographs for the recent PS 158 auction on NY's upper east side. He resides with his wife and two children in New York City and Woodstock, New York. More of Norman Baugher's work can be seen at http://baugherphotography.com/

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