Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Horst P. Horst
'Classical Head with Flowers, NY'
Lot Closed
April 10, 03:21 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Horst P. Horst
1906 - 1999
Classical Head with Flowers, NY
platinum palladium print, signed in pencil in the margin, signed, titled, dated and editioned 'AP 2/2' in pencil on the reverse
image: 19¾ by 16 in. (50.5 by 40.5 cm.)
Executed in 1988.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com
Horst: Sixty Years of Photography (New York, 1991), pl. 173, illustrated in color
Form Horst (Altadena, 1992), pl. 43
"Horst is not a magician but an illusionist. His studio substitutes for the world. With the right props, the right light, he creates an atmosphere, a personal ambience, before a few square metres of white screen in some New York or Paris studio." (Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, p. 13)
