A collection of 206 sold-out estate prints by photographer Vivian Maier is being offered as a single lot in Artnet's Important Photographs auction, with an estimate of $1–1.5 million. The trove, which includes gelatin silver and archival pigment prints from the 1950s to 1980s, represents a rare opportunity to acquire a comprehensive group of her work that is no longer available through primary market galleries.
This sale has the potential to significantly reset Maier's secondary market, which is still relatively new and has seen a dramatic increase in recent years. As the first major auction offering of such scale and completeness, its outcome will establish a new benchmark for the value of her photography, testing the market's depth for an artist who achieved posthumous fame after her vast archive was discovered in a storage locker in 2007.