Lot Essay
Romeo Martinez was editor of the magazine Camera from 1952 to 1973. When he published several of Florence Henri's pictures in 1967 she had drifted into virtual obscurity. As the interest in photography grew in the 1970s her work was rediscovered and she began to go back to her negatives for the first time in decades. Diana Dupont's 1990 catalogue and the exhibition it accompanied firmly reestablished Henri's reputation as a leading figure of the avant-garde. Her training as a painter and then a photographer at the Bauhaus led to the development of a body of work of photomontage, combination prints, mirror images and striking portraiture.