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Lot 48

Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) (Mainbocher) Corset, 1939

Lot 48

Horst P. Horst
(1906-1999)
(Mainbocher) Corset, 1939

Status:

Closed

Estimate: $7,000 - $9,000

Estimate$7,000 – $9,000

Status

Closed

Horst P. Horst
(1906-1999)
(Mainbocher) Corset, 1939

Gelatin silver print, printed later, signature credit blindstamp in the margin; signed, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

image: 12 x 9 7/8in. (30.5 x 25cm.)

sheet: 14 x 11in. (35.5 x 28cm.)

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:

A Private Collection, New York

Literature:

Kazmeier, Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, Rizzoli, 1991, pl. 8

Probably Horst's most recognizable work, Mainbocher Corset, with its elegance and beautiful lines, marks a turning point in Horst’s life as it was the last photograph he took in Paris before the war. He described the end of an era in his own words forty five years later:

“It was the last photograph I took in Paris before the war. I left the studio at 4:00am, went back to the house, picked up my bags and caught the 7:00am train to Le Havre to board on the Normandie. We all felt that the war was coming. Too much armament., too much talk. And you knew that whatever happened, life would be completely different after... This photograph is peculiar – for me it is the essence of that moment. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind”.

Neutral toned print on matte, doubleweight paper with margins. Horst's seminal fashion study, in excellent condition.

Sold unframed.

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Ms. Paterson joined Hindman in 2022 and is a nearly 30-year veteran of the photography industry. She began her career in the Photographs Department at Christie’s in New York, and spent 20 years at the auction house becoming a Senior Specialist. Subsequently, she worked at Magnum Photos New York (a prestigious photojournalism collective founded by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1947) as US Cultural and Print Sales Director and Bonhams as Head of the Photographs Department. Ms. Paterson has extensive knowledge of photography from the 18th to 21st centuries, with a particular interest in works of the American West by Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams.

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Horst P. Horst
(1906-1999)
(Mainbocher) Corset, 1939