Lot 54

'Aged twenty-four, the former ugly duckling of the Bohrmann famly was a noticeably personable young man, with a well-developed athletic figure. Not surprisingly, Huene started to use Horst as a model; and certain of Huene's photographs, now widely regarded as among his most significant and innovative shots of youthful bodies seemingly suspended in space date precisely from those early days of their friendship.' - Valentine Lawford

GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HUENE (1900-1968)

Horst Torso, Paris, 1930

Details

GEORGE HOYNINGEN-HUENE (1900-1968)
Horst Torso, Paris, 1930
platinum-palladium print, printed 1985-1995
signed, titled, dated and numbered 'AP 1/2'
14¾ x 18¾in. (37.4 x 47.5cm.)

Literature

Horst, p. 36; Sixty, p. 8; Form, p. 76

Lot Essay

Photographed on the roof of the Paris Vogue studio, 1930.
Published as 'Junger Sportsmann' (Young sportsman), Master der Fotografie, Hoyningen-Huene, Dietrich Reimer, Berlin, 1932, plate section unpaginated; William A. Ewing, Eye for Elegance, ICP and Congreve Publishing Co., New York, 1980, p. 29, dated to 1931.
The edition size is 10 + 2AP.

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