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  1. Red Dragon by Li Ming, Image 1.

    Li Ming

    Red Dragon, 2023

    Ceramic

    18 x 18 x 13 cm

    US$1,000

  2. La Danse by Marco Piono, Image 1.

    Marco Piono

    La Danse, 1997

    Bronze

    18 x 5 x 5 cm

    US$800

  3. Ken Currie - Study For a Tribune by Ken Currie, Image 6.

    Ken Currie

    Ken Currie - Study For a Tribune, 1994

    Bronze

    40 x 32 x 13 cm

    US$25,000

  4. Miles Davis by William Claxton, Image 2.

    William Claxton

    Miles Davis, 1956

    Photograph

    31 x 23 cm

    US$2,500

  5. "I Am An American" by Dorothea Lange, Image 1.

    Dorothea Lange

    "I Am An American", 1942

    Photograph

    21 x 21 cm

    US$1,500

  6. Solarized Nude 1930 by Man Ray, Image 1.

    Man Ray

    Solarized Nude 1930, 1930

    Photograph

    27 x 21 cm

    US$3,000

  7. University of Glasgow by Marjorie C. Bates, Image 1.

    Marjorie C. Bates

    University of Glasgow, c. 1925

    Watercolour and mixed media

    36 x 28 cm

    US$600

  8. The Reader by Auguste Moreau, Image 1.

    Auguste Moreau

    The Reader, c. 1900

    Bronze

    20 x 18 x 18 cm

    US$1,200

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About the artist

Felice Beato

English

1832–1909

Felice Beato was the first photographer to devote himself entirely to photographing in Asia and the Near East. He photographed in Japan, India, Athens, Constantinople, the Crimea, and Palestine. He settled in Yokohama and from 1863 to 1877 made hundreds of ethnographic portraits and genre scenes in Japan. He eventually opened a furniture and curio business in Burma.

Beato's photographic career was also long affiliated with images of war. He photographed the Opium War in China in 1860 and the Sudanese colonial wars in 1885.

While in partnership with his brother-in-law James Robertson in the 1850s, Beato documented the Indian Mutiny and its aftermath. Their photographs are believed to be the first to show human corpses on a battlefield. Beato and Robertson were also among the earliest photographers to work in the Holy Land.
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