Lot Essay
Horst wrote of Zelensky with regard to this particular image that 'she knew how to wear dresses. I accentuated the important part of the dress, and chose not to show the whole thing.'
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White Sleeve, Fashion Shot with Doris [Lyla] Zelensky, Paris, 1936
Details
HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
White Sleeve, Fashion Shot with Doris [Lyla] Zelensky, Paris, 1936
platinum print, printed later
signed in pencil in margin and on verso
8¾ x 6 3/8in. (22.3 x 16.1cm.)
White Sleeve, Fashion Shot with Doris [Lyla] Zelensky, Paris, 1936
platinum print, printed later
signed in pencil in margin and on verso
8¾ x 6 3/8in. (22.3 x 16.1cm.)
Literature
British Vogue, 4 March 1936; Lawford, Horst: His Work and His World, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984, p.131; Tardiff & Schirmer (eds.), Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, Thames and Hudson, 1991, pl.14.
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