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Horst P. Horst (i.e. Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann)

Weißenfels 1906 – 1999 Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Muriel Maxwell, New York. 1940

Later gelatin silver contact print. 25,2 × 20,2 cm (35,4 × 27,6 cm) (9 ⅞ × 8 in. (13 ⅞ × 10 ⅞ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Horst P. Horst (i.e. Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann). Muriel Maxwell, New York. 1940.

Estimate:

EUR 2,000

 

- 3,000

USD 2,270

 

- 3,410

Sold for:

2,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions October 2018

Photography, Friday, 26.10.2018

Information

Later gelatin silver contact print. 25,2 × 20,2 cm (35,4 × 27,6 cm) (9 ⅞ × 8 in. (13 ⅞ × 10 ⅞ in.)). Exposed onto negative, upper centre in the margin of the image: „H 843-1“. Signed in pencil in the margin lower right. Signed in pencil and photographer's copyright stamp on the reverse: „HORST ©“ as well as titled, inscribed and numbered by different hands in pencil.

American Vogue, 1 August 1940, Title (there a variation in colour with caption: „For your autumn reflection - this Lilly Daché felt pill-box, worn atop a red silk head-scarf the Peruvians call a chullo. It makes your face the focus. Ransohoffs. The jewels are from Trabert and Hoeffer-Mauboussin. The lipstick is Tangee's new ’Red Red‘“) / British Vogue, September 1940 (there a variation in colour with the caption: „For your autumn reflection; this pill-box with a medieval head-scarf: Harrods. Matched by Lenthéric's No. 6 Lipstick“ / Richard J. Horst-Tardiff and Lothar Schirmer (ed.): Horst. Photographien aus sechs Jahrzehnten. Munich, Paris and London 1995, pl. 48 / exh. cat.: Horst. Magier des Lichts – Magician of Light. Halle, Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg; Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat; Mainz, Frankfurter Hof among others, 1997, p. 66

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