Lot 229
  • 229

Horst P. Horst

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Horst P. Horst
  • Electric Beauty, Paris 1939
  • signed; the photographer's copyright stamp on the reverse

  • gelatin silver print

  • 50.5 by 40.5cm. 19 7/8 by 15 7/8 in.
  • Probably executed in the 1980s.
Gelatin silver print, printed later. Signed Horst in pencil at lower right, with the photographer's copyright stamp 'Horst' on the reverse.

Literature

Richard J. Horst/ Lothar Schirmer (ed.), Horst. Sixty Years of Photography, Munich, 1991, ill. pl. 44

Condition

The print is in very good condition, with a small handling mark of approximately 1.5 cm near the lower left corner; the corners are slightly worn, the upper left corner with a slight fold outside the image. The upper and lower left corners each with a small crease outside the image. The print probably dates to the 1980s.
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