ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994)

La Vitrine, Galerie Romi, Paris, 1948

Details

ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994)
La Vitrine, Galerie Romi, Paris, 1948
6 gelatin silver prints, printed 1990
each signed in ink (in the margin); each titled, dated and 5 initialed, in ink (on the verso)
each approx. 9½ x 11½in. (24.2 x 29.2cm.)

Provenance

With Hamiltons, London

Literature

"Le Photographe était derrière la vitrine", Point de Vue, c. 1949, pp. 12-13, twelve images from the series; Hamilton, Robert Doisneau: A Photographer's Life, Abbeville Press, 1995, pp. 187-189.; Gautrand, Robert Doisneau 1912-1994, Taschen, 2003

Lot Essay

Doisneau had a friend, Robert Miquel, called 'Romi' who owned an antique shop in Paris. Romi had bought a nude that Doisneau noticed had attracted a lot of attention. "I arranged with Romi to sit in the shop, holding the Rolleiflex on my knee, to see if I could get some good pictures. Because there was a reflection in the window, passersby couldn't see what I was doing. All but the picture of the policeman were made in the space of two to three hours." (Doisneau as quoted in: Hamilton, Robert Doisneau: A Photographer's Life, Abbeville Press, 1995, p. 186)

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