HELMUT NEWTON (1920–2004) Photo-Art by Helmut Newton. Furniture by Dietiker (Portfolio of Four Photographs)

Portfolio comprising four metallic photo-lithographs on heavy paper, published by Dietiker, Switzerland, circa 2003. issued in a limited, numbered edition and contained in the original folder. 30 x 21 cm (each) Helmut Newton lived in Monte Carlo. He was acquainted with Urs Felber, the principal shareholder and Chairman of the Administrative Board of Dietiker Switzerland, who lived with his family in Villa Helvetia in neighbouring Roquebrune (France). Newton chose Felber’s house, a large concrete and glass construction built into the vertical cliffs, as the location for this series with design objects by Dietiker. ‘My immediate surroundings are always more mysterious and more exciting for me than any remote place,’ he said.