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LAURIE SIMMONS (Long Island, New York, 1949). "Plaid living room". The instant decorator Series, 2004. Flex print. Edition 3/5. Work reproduced on the artist's website. Presents certificate of authenticity, exhibition labels and signature on the back. Provenance: Distrito Cuatro Gallery (Madrid). Measurements: 76,2 x 96,5 cm; 84,1 x 104,1 cm (frame). "Plaid living Room" (2004) belongs to the Instant Decorator series, which was initiated by Simmons in 2001, with the intention of materializing his research around a book on interior decoration published in 1976. This publication had different templates of domestic interiors, which allowed the reader to decorate rooms with fabric swatches and different paintings. By rescuing this "Do it by yourself" idea, the author constructed an image that echoes the aesthetics of collage, where different independent elements coexist, forming a set of great visual expressiveness. Through a domestic interior in which an elegantly dressed woman lies on the carpet, the author poses to the viewer an uncertainty about who this character is, and what she represents. The protagonist is surrounded by luxuries, and looks at the viewer suggestively, but she is alone, and her pose and dress invite her to be represented as just another piece of furniture, as an object of consumption. This representation of the woman, reflecting on her role in the social environment, was one of the first themes explored by Laurie Simmons in her works. In which she related the space of the home with the feminine, like other artists such as Martha Rosler, or Barbara Kruger, who used similar themes and techniques to the one presented here. Laurie Simmons grew up in Long Island, in an era of economic expansion that marked the beginning of material prosperity, but also gave rise to a state of conformity, characteristics that are very recurrent in the themes explored by the artist. Her career stands out for its versatility, as she works as an artist, photographer and filmmaker. After graduating from Tyler School of Art in the late 1960s and settling in New York City, Simmons began to develop her artistic side. In 1972, Simmons discovered a vintage dollhouse in the attic of a toy store in Liberty, New York, so she began making compositions with dolls, which she subsequently photographed and intervened. Most of his works make a statement about traditional gender roles, questioning them and criticizing the objectification of the person, especially women. Simmons is part of the important artistic group, The Pictures Generation, a name given to a group of artists who rose to fame in the 1970s, and which includes world-renowned artists such as Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger and Louise Lawler. Much of Simmons' work, like that of the aforementioned artists, is rooted in the role of women and their integration with their environment and society. In a March 2014 interview, Simmons stated, "When I picked up a camera with a group of other women, I'm not going to say it was a radical act, but we were certainly doing it in a kind of defiance or reaction to, a male-dominated world of painting." Today her work is in important collections both private and public, examples include the Queen Sofia Art Center, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Work reproduced on the artist's website. Presents certificate of authenticity, exhibition labels and signature on the back. Provenance: Distrito Cuatro Gallery (Madrid). Gallery Distrito Cuatro (Madrid).

FRANCESCA WOODMAN (Denver, Colorado, 1958-New York, 1981) "Self portrait", N3017.1. New York, 1979-80. Gelatin silver print. Later printed by Igor Bakht, stamp on verso. Signed by George and Betty Woodman, annotated "I B" "N3017.1" in pencil. PE/FW credit stamp on verso. Provenance: Foster Glasgow private collection. Measurements: 13.7 x 13.7 cm (image); 26 x 21 cm (paper). This photograph, in which Francesca Woodman is shown foreshortened and quartered, belongs to the last stage of the artist's short life. At the time, she was living in New York. Woodman had spent the summer of 1979 in Stanwood, Washington to visit her partner, Benjamin Moore. It was there that she created a photographic series on domestic subjects. When she returned to New York, she tried to make her work known and managed to have exhibitions at the Daniel Wolf Gallery. In the advertising and fashion industry she discovered the work of Deborah Turbeville, who was characterized by placing models in gothic-melodramatic settings, such as in desolate or dark buildings or corridors. Woodman imbibed this style, which she then reflected in her future photographs. In the summer of 1980 he experimented with his own body in order to deal with themes of something higher, according to the letter he wrote to his friend Suzanne Santoro, who lived in Rome. At this time, his artistic creation became more meticulous and he elaborated more methodically the composition, starting from previously created sketches, to work out the narrative of his images. Although she put a lot of effort into her artistic work, she was never convinced of it. What really drove her to suicide was a mediocre public response to her photography and a broken romance. Her father suggested that the reason for the suicide was a failed application for funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was too far ahead of her time. All this caused Francesca Woodman to fall into a depression and finally, a few days after launching her book, on January 19, 1981, she decided to take her own life at the age of only 22, jumping out of a loft window on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. Francesca Woodman was an American photographer known for her intimate black and white self-portraits. She graduated from Rhode Island School of Design, the University of Fine Arts in Providence. Her photography is characterized primarily by the use of a single model, usually nude. It was usually her, but in various photographs she portrayed several of her friends. The body captured by the camera was usually in motion, due to long exposure times, or the image was not sharp. He also used other techniques, such as masking himself or trying to blend in with the objects or the environment itself. She was born into a family of artists. From an early age, together with her brother Charles Woodman, she was introduced to the art world by her parents, George Woodman and Betty Woodman, who were both visual artists. Today, they manage an archive of more than 800 images of their daughter, 120 of which have been exhibited or published. She belongs to the generation of avant-garde women of the 1970s who claimed their contribution and vision of the world, which also includes activist artists such as Cindy Sherman, Martha Rosler or Ana Mendieta.

HELMUT NEWTON (Germany, 1920- California, 2004). "Domestic Nude 7, Los Angeles, 1992. Gelatin silver, copy 9/15. Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil. Provenance: Maurizio Siniscaldo Gallery, Naples, Italy. Measurements: 45,2 x 36,2 cm (image). The series "Domestic Nude" that Helmut Newton carried out in Los Angeles in 1992 represented another turn of the screw for artistic and fashion photography. In it, he places women in provocative poses and in unusual domestic spaces: in the doghouse, leaning against the refrigerator.... They are not shown languidly as odalisques but empowered and defiant, without modesty and without admitting easy voyeurism. In "Domestic Nude" she explores the boundaries between the private and the public, between women as subject and object. Newton also carefully plans her compositions to maximize visual impact. Newton was born in Berlin, attended the Heinrich-von-Treitschke-Realgymnasium and the American School in Berlin. Interested in photography from the age of 12 when he bought his first camera, he worked for German photographer Yva (Elsie Neuländer Simon) from 1936.The increasingly oppressive restrictions imposed on Jews by the Nuremberg laws caused his father to lose control of the factory; he was briefly interned in a concentration camp on Kristallnacht, , which eventually forced the family to leave Germany. Newton's parents fled to Argentina. Finally, arriving in Singapore, he found he could remain there, first briefly as a photographer for the Straits Times and then as a portrait photographer. Newton was interned by British authorities while in Singapore and was sent to Australia aboard the Queen Mary, arriving in Sydney on September 27, 1940. He was released from internment in 1942 and worked briefly as a fruit picker in northern Victoria. In April 1942, he enlisted in the Australian Army and worked as a truck driver. After the war in 1945, he became a British subject and changed his name to Newton in 1946. That same year, Newton set up a studio on Flinders Lane in Melbourne and worked in fashion, theater and industrial photography during the postwar period. He shared his first joint exhibition in May 1953 with Wolfgang Sievers,The 'New Visions in Photography' exhibition was shown at the Federal Hotel in Collins Street and was probably the first glimpse of New Objectivity photography in Australia. Newton became associated with Henry Talbot, a German Jew who had also interned at Tatura, and his association with the studio continued even after 1957, when he left Australia for London. The studio was renamed 'Helmut Newton and Henry Talbot'. Newton's growing reputation as a fashion photographer was rewarded when he secured a commission to illustrate fashions in a special Australian supplement for Vogue magazine, published in January 1956. He won a 12-month contract with British Vogue and left for London in February 1957, leaving Talbot to manage the business. Newton left the magazine before the end of his contract and went to Paris, where he worked for French and German magazines. He returned to Melbourne in March 1959 to work with Australian Vogue. Newton and his wife finally settled in Paris in 1961. His images appeared in magazines such as the French edition of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. He established a particular style marked by erotic and stylized scenes, often with fetishistic subtexts. In 1980 he created the "Big Nudes" series. His "Nude and Clothed" portfolio followed, and in 1992 "Domestic Nudes," which marked the pinnacle of his erotic-urban style, all of these series supported the dexterity of his technical skills. Newton also worked on more fantastical portraits and studies. He did a series of illustrations for Playboy, including illustrations of Nastassja Kinski and Kristine DeBell.