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HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
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HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)

Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939

Fermé13 November 2007

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GBP 12,500

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HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939
platinum-palladium print, printed before 1985
signed in pencil in margin and on verso
9½ x 7½in. (24.2 x 19.1cm.)

With Hamiltons Gallery, London;
acquired by present owner, 1992.

Note du spécialiste

Horst recalls: 'It was the last photo I took in Paris before the war. I left the studio at 4:00 a.m., went back to the house, picked up my bags and caught the 7:00 a.m. train to Le Havre to board the Normandie. We all felt that war was coming...This photograph is peculiar -- for me, it is the essence of that moment. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind' (quoted in Lawford, p.185).