HW Pick: Billie Holiday, 1950’s

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Your Harlem art collection is coming along pretty well, but you can always use a little more Billie from Christies…

…that’s right, tomorrow, Christie’s starts unloading German connoisseur Gert Elfering’s eye-popping collection of photographs of nude supermodels. The 135 pics span 20 years, so we thought to give you a hand finding your way through it all. Allow us to help focus your auction strategy:

·      Janet Jackson’s famous hand-assisted Rolling Stone cover, shot by Patrick Demarchelier in Miami in 1993. It’s more pop culture history than art, so Christie’s only pegs it at $6,000-$9,000. Just hope Timberlake doesn’t show…

There’s also revealing peeks at Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, along with less stirring shots of Picasso, Billie Holiday  (pictured) and… a bunch of grain elevators.

And if you think the $9K estimate is steep even for a Janet, think of it this way: she’s going to cost Jermaine a lot more than that in the long run.

Photographs from the Collection of Gert Elfering, Christie’s New York, 20 Rockefeller Center; auction April 10th, christies.com, to register for bidding, call 212-636-2437.

 

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