Seydou Keta (B. 1921)

Man with Flower

Details

Seydou Keta (B. 1921)
Man with Flower
signed and dated '1959 Seydou Keta 1998' (lower left)
black and white photograph
23 x 19in. (59.5 x 49.5cm.)

Literature

'African Photography', New York 1996 (illustrated p. 70.).
A. Magnin (Ed.), 'Seydou Keta', Zurich 1997 (illustrated, p. 5).

Sale room notice

Please note that the correct information for this lot should read:

Exhibited:
Paris, Fondation Cartier, Feb. 1994 (illustrated in the catalogue, cover).
New York, Guggenheim Museum, 'In Sight, African Photographers from 1940 to the Present' May 1996 (illustrated in the catalogue, p. 70).

Literature:
A. Magnin (Ed.), 'Seydou Keita', Zurich 1997 (illustrated p. 5).

Lot Essay

"An elegant young man in European clothes holding a flower. He is wearing a white sport jacket with a breast-pocket handkerchief, fountain pen, stripped tie and thick-rimmed glasses. Coud he be a member of the 'Fleur de Paris Club'? All the young people in the 1950's could sing the first few lines of the song: 'C'est une fleur de Paris - Du vieux Paris qui sourit - Car c'est la fleur du retour - Du retour des beaux jours.'"

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