Lot 24
  • 24

Horst P. Horst

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

Description

  • Horst P. Horst
  • 'Muriel Maxwell', New York 1940
  • photograph
Silver contact print, printed later. Signed in pencil in the lower margin. Signed and titled in pencil and with the photographer's copyright stamp on the reverse. Mounted.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist
Private German Collection

Literature

Vogue, August 1st, 1940, ill. cover. (variant);
Reinhold Mißelbeck (ed.), Horst. Magier des Lichts. Magician of Light, exh. cat. Staatliche Galerie Mortizburg, Halle et. al,. Heidelberg, Braus, 1997, ill. p. 66.

Condition

This silver print is in very good condition. With two very light handling folds in the upper left corner of the image and one in the centre near the right edge of the image visible in raking light only. The corners are slightly worn and with two tiny tears of approx. 0.5 cm each at the lower edge away from the image.
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