HORST P. HORST (1906–1999)
HORST P. HORST (1906–1999)

Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939

Details
HORST P. HORST (1906–1999)
Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, numbered '4/50' in pencil, stamped photographer's copyright credit (verso)
image: 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.2 x 20 cm.)
sheet: 13 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (35.3 x 27.6 cm.)
This work is number four from an edition of fifty.
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, April 26 & 27, 1989, lot 415;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Valentine Lawford, Horst, His Work and His World, Viking Penguin Inc., New York, 1984, p. 184.
Richard J. Tardiff and Lothar Schirmer (eds.), Horst, Sixty years of Photography, Universe Publishing, New York, 1996, pl. 8.
Susanna Brown, Horst, Photographer of Style, V&A Publishing, London, 2014, p. 77.

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