Lot 23
  • 23

Horst P. Horst

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Horst P. Horst
  • 'Trompe l'Oeil Fashion' Paris, 1937
  • photograph
Silver print, printed later. Signed in pencil in the lower margin. With the photographer's copyright stamp and titled and dated in red crayon on the reverse. Mounted.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist
Private German Collection

Literature

Martin Kazmaier, Horst. Sixty Years of Photography, New York, Universe, 1996, ill. back cover;
Reinhold Mißelbeck (ed.), Horst. Magier des Lichts. Magician of Light, exh. cat. Staaliche Galerie Moritzburg, Halle et. al., Heidelberg, Braus, 1997, ill. p. 33;
Susanna Brown (ed.), Horst. Photographer of Style, exh. cat. Victoria and Albert Museum, London, V&A Publishing, 2014, ill. pl. 10, p. 18.

Condition

This silver print is in excellent condition. The four corners are very slightly worn and with a light fold of approx. 1 cm in the left margin visible in raking light only and away from the image.
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