Leif-Erik Nygards

Marilyn Monroe (her final photoshoot), Bel Air Hotel 1962, Leif-Erik Nygards

1962

Artist: David LaChapelle (1963) Title: Mythical Swans: Madonna, New York, Rolling Stone, 1998 Year: 1998 Medium: ​Chromogenic print, front-mounted to acrylic, flush-mounted to alumin...

Artist: Paul Saltzman (1943) Title: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Rishikesh India (Beatles), suite of four Year: 1966 Medium: Chromogenic prints on photographic paper Edition: 1/50, 3/50, 3/50, 3/50; editions of 50 Size: 24.75 x 24.75 inches, each Inscription: each signed, titled, and numbered by the photographer Notes: Photographed by Paul Saltzman, Rishikesh, 1966; printed by Paul Saltzman, Toronto. Captured when the photographer was twenty-three years old, and studying meditation under the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, these images were created at the time when the Beatles, Donovan and others were also pursuing their studies in meditation there. These photographs are rare and may never have been fully editioned. PAUL SALTZMAN (1943) is a Canadian film and television producer, photographer, and director. A two-time Emmy Award-recipient, he has been credited on more than 300 films, both dramas and documentaries. In 1968, at the age of 23, he traveled to India for the first time as sound engineer on the National Film Board of Canada's Juggernaut documentary. He studied meditation to recover after his girlfriend had broken up with him, by mail. He learned meditation at the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in the holy city of Rishikesh, India, The Beatles were coincidentally also visiting the ashram. He saw them sitting at a table and asked to join them. Paul McCartney drew up a chair. While there, he spent time with and photographed the Beatles, Donovan, Mia and Prudence Farrow and Mike Love. His photos have been judged "some of the best intimate shots" ever taken of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, and have been seen in galleries worldwide. A permanent exhibition of his The Beatles in India photographs...

Artist: ​Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) Title: Coco Chanel, Paris, 1937 Year: 1937, printed later by the photographer Medium: Silver Gelatin Print Size: 14 x 11 inches Condition: Excelle...

Artist: Jiang Tie-Feng (1938) Title: Morning with Crane Year: 2001 Medium: Silkscreen on Vellum Rag paper Edition: 227/293, plus proofs Size: 31 x 31 inches Condition: Good Inscription: Signed and numbered by the artist. JIANG TIE-FENG (1938- ) Chinese Artist Jiang Tiefeng's colors are of unsurpassed richness. Jiang's use of imagery in his paintings are steeped in Buddhist and Chinese mythology. Each figure has a symbolic meaning, and his works have so much complexity and visual fascination that the viewer is constantly seeing something new. Jiang's deep love of the colorful earth and for Xishuangbanna, a region of the Yunnan Province, has encouraged him to explore and create mysterious and unique subjects to paint. The secret and essence of Jiang Tiefeng's work is best expressed by the artist himself as he describes his paintings not only as pictures, but they are also music and poetry...