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Lot 632 R

Horst P. Horst - Marlene Dietrich, New York

Auction 1267 - overview Cologne
30.05.2025, 14:00 - Photography
Estimate: 2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result: 1.890 € (incl. premium)
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Horst P. Horst

Marlene Dietrich, New York
1942

Gelatin silver print, printed 1996. 44.6 x 34.3 cm (50 x 40 cm). Photographer's signature stamp in the margin lower right. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed in pencil as well as edition stamp on the verso. From a set of three portfolios published on the occasion of the photographer's 90th birthday. - Matted and framed.

"Without makeup, her face had typical flat German features. She projected sex but she was not sexy." Horst P. Horst, in: Lawford (ed.), op.cit., p. 237

Provenance

Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

Literature

Valentine Lawford (ed.), Horst. His Work and His World, Harmondsworth 1985, ill. p. 237 (here titled: Marlene Dietrich photographed in the Vogue Studio, New York); Richard J. Horst-Tardiff/Lothar Schirmer (eds.), Horst. Photographien aus sechs Jahrzehnten, Munich 1991, plate 60