Live Auction 2113Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering
FERNAND FONSSAGRIVES (1910-2003)
Lot 85

FERNAND FONSSAGRIVES (1910-2003)

Lisa, 1949

Closed10 April 2008

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USD 46,600

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FERNAND FONSSAGRIVES (1910-2003)
Lisa, 1949
gelatin silver print
signed in pencil and credit in ink (on the verso)
9¾ x 7 1/8in. (24.8 x 18cm.)

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Specialist note

The figure in this image is the photographer's wife Lisa. The picture was made in the year of their divorce. She was to marry Irving Penn, whom she had met in 1947 and who graciously acknowledged Fernand Fonssagrives for 'making some of the most beautiful images we have of joy, health and sport in the out of doors'. (Fernand Fonssagrives An Eye for Beauty, p. 9)