HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)

American Nude, New York, 1982

Details

HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
American Nude, New York, 1982
platinum-palladium print on canvas, printed c. 1988
signed in pencil (on the verso)
19½ x 19½in. (49.5 x 49.5cm.)

Provenance

From the artist;
to the present owner

Literature

Horst and Schirmer, eds., Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, Universe Publishing, 1991, pl. 167

Lot Essay

Inspired by Robert Mapplethorpe's platinum prints on linen, Horst produced a series of his best-known images on canvas, in editions of five, including the American Nude. This work, extravagantly framed, has a resulting depth and richness more reminiscent of an old master painting.

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