Live Auction 2113Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering
HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Lot 83 I don't know how I did it. I couldn't repeat it. It was created by emotion.... 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.... The photograph is peculiar -- for me. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind.
HORST

HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)

Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939

Closed10 April 2008

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USD 133,000

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HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939
platinum on silk, printed circa 1990
9 5/16 x 7 1/16in. (24.2 x 18cm.)

Acquired directly from the artist

Specialist note

This print is from a very small, un-numbered edition not intended for sale. It is one of only a few recorded platinum prints made to Horst's instruction on silk. See also lot 57.