HELMUT NEWTON | 'ERICA’S ACCIDENT', HOLLYWOOD, 1987

HELMUT NEWTON
1920-2004
'ERICA’S ACCIDENT', HOLLYWOOD, 1987

Silver print. Signed, titled and dated in red pencil, and numbered 7/10 in pencil on verso. With a gallery label bearing information about the work in facsimile affixed to the back of the frame. Matted and framed.
Image 59 x 45 cm (23⅓ x 17¾ in);
sheet 60.5 x 50.8 cm (23¾ x 20 in.)

Condition Report:
This beautiful print, with a glossy surface, is in overall very good condition. With undulation to the top and bottom edges of the print, and XXXXXXXXXX red marks on verso, doesn't look to be a condition issue but perhaps residue from a backing board of a previous frame XXXXXXXXXXXXX.
This work has been framed by John Jones, and has an ultraviolet filtering, low iron and low reflective acrylic front.

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Provenance:
Private collection, UK

Christie's Los Angeles, Photographs from the Twentieth Century, 17 January 2001, lot 175

Hamiltons Gallery, London