Lot 63, Herbert Bayer, Metamorphosis, 1936. Est. $250/300,000. © Sotheby's Images

NEW YORK, N.Y.- On October 16th, 2007, as part of its two days of Photographs auctions, Sotheby’s will feature a single-owner sale of Photographs from the Collection of Nancy Richardson, a highly focused offering of images by some of the most innovative photographers of the 20th century (est. $1.4/2.1 million). An experienced collector in the fields of 18th- and 19th-century art and objects, Nancy Richardson turned her attention to photography in the 1990s, choosing images with an impeccable eye for quality. "The Nancy Richardson collection is among the most sophisticated groups of photographs we have had the pleasure to handle," says Christopher Mahoney, the specialist in charge of the sale. "Each of her pictures relates, in its own way, to the major currents of art running through the 20th century." Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21986