Lot Essay
Remembering this shoot for Vogue, Horst recalled: 'The photograph was probably to show nail polish and how to take care of your feet. I used the plaster feet to make it more amusing.' (Lawford, p.229)
.jpg?w=1)
Barefoot Beauty, New York, 1941
Details
HORST P. HORST (1906-1999 German/American)
Barefoot Beauty, New York, 1941
platinum-palladium print, printed 1987
signed in pencil in margin; credited with copyright insignia, titled, dated and numbered '2/10' in pencil on verso
23½ x 19¼in. (59.7 x 49cm.)
Barefoot Beauty, New York, 1941
platinum-palladium print, printed 1987
signed in pencil in margin; credited with copyright insignia, titled, dated and numbered '2/10' in pencil on verso
23½ x 19¼in. (59.7 x 49cm.)
Literature
Horst: Photographs of a Decade, J.J. Augustin, 1944, p.90; Lawford, Horst: His Work and His World, Viking, 1984, p.229; Tardiff & Schirmer (eds.), Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, Thames & Hudson, 1991, pl.79; Form/Horst, Twin Palms, 1992, p.56; Platinum, Jefferies Cowan, 2006, pl.14.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.