Sworders has a eclectic private collection for auction on 9 July. The catalogue notes that 'over the past forty years, this collection has been an inspiration and source of daily pleasure. Like dreams, the unexpected connections between disparate objects can open doors to new curiosities, new passions. It is our hope that the surprising juxtapositions found here will spark fresh journeys of discovery for their new custodians.'
The auction includes a significant amount of photography commencing with large groups of Czech, American, Canadian, German, and Japanese photobooks and illustrated maagzines, themes 100 years of celebrity culture, daguerreotypes, photographs, stereographs, and albums, work by Richard Billingham, Lartigue, Anders Petersen, Tony Ray-Jones, Angus McBean, Mark Gerson, Simon Norfolk, Berenice Abbott, Robert Capa, Ilya Kabakov, František Drtikol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Josef Sudek, Eve Arnold, Frederick Leslie Kenett, Cecil Beaton, Amelia Elizabeth Gimingham, large groups of mixed photography, themed lots including Ruskin, Czech, aviation, military, East European, cycling, boxing, theatre, film, stage, jazz, pop music, royalty, naval, civil war, medical, and press.
DREAMS | A Unique Private Collection
Wednesday 9 July 2025 | 10am
In Person and Online
https://www.sworder.co.uk/auction/details/a1244-dreams--a-unique-private-collection/?au=1272
Image: top: Tony Ray-Jones (1941-1972), 'A Portfolio of Fifteen Photographs 1967-1969' from 1975, right: Blow Up, poster, 1967; left: Josef Sudek, lot 92; below, lot 38, A collection of flower and plant studies c.1890s and later, comprising various photographs of flower and plant studies by Amelia Elizabeth Gimingham
