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'He takes the inert clay of human flesh and molds it into the decorative shapes of his own devising. There is nothing accidental in his work - every gesture of his models is planned, every line controlled and coordinated to the whole of the picture. Some gestures look natural and careless, because carefully rehearsed; the others, like Voltaire's god, were invented by the artist because they did not exist.' - Dr Mehemed Agha
HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Male Nude I, New York, 1949
Details
HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Male Nude I, New York, 1949
platinum-palladium print on canvas, printed 1985-1995
signed in ink (in the margin); signed in pencil (on the verso)
18 x 14in. (45.6 x 35.4cm.)
Male Nude I, New York, 1949
platinum-palladium print on canvas, printed 1985-1995
signed in ink (in the margin); signed in pencil (on the verso)
18 x 14in. (45.6 x 35.4cm.)
Literature
Sixty, pl. 104; Form, p. 68