PHILIPPE HALSMAN

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PHILIPPE HALSMAN

Jean Cocteau and Leo Coleman

Gelatin silver print. 1949. Copyright stamp on the verso. 13½ x 8 7/8in.
Literature
Halsman at Work, p. 74.

Lot Essay

Halsman described a sitting in which I asked Leo Coleman to undress and when his magnificently muscled body appeared...it was a coup de foudre. I have never seen a man court a woman with the exquisite elegance and style that Cocteau displayed toward the young man... I made a photograph showing the two floating in a room. - Halsman at Work, p. 77.

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