ID 1134258
Lot 157 | HORST P. HORST (1906–1999)
Estimate value
$ 20 000 – 30 000
Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939
platinum palladium print, printed later
signed in pencil (recto); signed, titled, dated, numbered '38⁄50' and annotated in pencil (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection and museum labels (frame backing board)
image: 17 5⁄8 x 13 ¼ in. (44.7 x 33.6 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 15 5⁄8 in. (50.8 x 39.6 cm.)
This work is number thirty-eight from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000.
Literature
Valentine Lawford, Horst: His Work and His World, Viking, Harmondsworth, 1985, p. 184.
Horst P. Horst and Martin Kazmaier, Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, Rizzoli, New York, 1991, pl. 8.
Form: Horst, Twin Palm Publishers, Altadena, 1992, p. 35.
Renhold Misselbeck, 20th Century Photography, Taschen, Cologne, Germany, 2012, p. 267.
Horst P. Horst and Frederica Manfredini, Horst P. Horst, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2018, p. 24.
Exhibited
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, November 4, 2000–January 28, 2001.
| Artist: | Horst P. Horst (1906 - 1999) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Horst P. Horst (1906 - 1999) |
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| Art style: | Modern art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
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