Doe Eye, Jean Patchett, Vogue New York, 1 January 1950

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ERWIN BLUMENFELD (1897-1969)
Doe Eye, Jean Patchett, Vogue New York, 1 January 1950
inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, printed circa 2013, estate's blind stamp (margin)
sheet: 35 7⁄16 x 28 ¾ cm. (90 x 73 cm.)
image: 28 3⁄8 x 22 5⁄8 in. (72 x 57.5 cm.)
This work is number three from an edition of twenty, plus four artist proofs.

Provenance

with Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above for the present collection in May 2016.

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Lot Essay

This print was made around 2013 and is based on the original black and white photograph of Jean Patchett, taken by Erwin Blumenfeld, and has been colorised to closely resemble the 1950 Vogue US cover of the American model. This re-creation of the Vogue cover has been published as the cover of Patchett’s biography, American Goddess by Robert and Lois Allen Lilly (Powerhouse Books, 2019). It is also part of the current exhibition at the Villa Medici in Rome Chromotherapia, curated by Maurizio Cattelan and Sam Stourdze (Feb-June 2025), and features in the exhibition catalogue, Chromotherapia (Damiana eds, 2025).

We are grateful to the Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld for their assistance in cataloguing this lot.

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