HELMUT NEWTON (b. 1920)

Hugh Hefner's Projection Room, Beverly Hills, 1986

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HELMUT NEWTON (b. 1920)
Hugh Hefner's Projection Room, Beverly Hills, 1986
credit, titled, dated in ink and notation in pencil (on the verso)
gelatin silver print
10½ x 10½ in. (26.7 x 26.7 cm.)
RUN DATE: September 1987, Helmut Newton's Playmates and March 1998, Playboy Gallery.

Literature

Thunder's Mouth Press, Helmut Newton's Illustrated No 1 - No 4, p. 45; and Chronicle, Playboy: 50 Years - The Photographs.

Lot Essay

This photograph of Christine Richters and Erich von Stroheim in German uniform, taken in Hefner's screening room at his Hollywood mansion, was set against a projection of the Jean Renoir's classic, 1937 film, La Grande Illusion.

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