Christie`s New York announces the spring season of photographs
(Artdaily.org)

On April 6, Christie’s will present two photographs auctions in New York, including Portrait of a Collector: The John M. Bransten Collection of Photographs at 11am and Photographs Including Property Sold to Benefit the Elton John AIDS Foundation at 1pm. Christie’s will present John M. Bransten’s visionary collection, on behalf of the Bransten family, to the general public. Portrait of a Collector: The John M. Bransten Collection of Photographs encompasses twenty-eight exquisite photographs. Each work was judiciously selected by Bransten, a voracious collector who had always been ahead of the general public. Bransten enjoyed learning all that he could about the medium and accordingly pursued seminal examples by their respective artists. His pioneering timing in the marketplace allowed him to secure blue-chip photographs well before the rest of the world caught up, and he was fortunate enough to begin acquiring works b