Auction on
25 January 2022 - 14:00 (CET) -
Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009
Irving Penn produced this photographic portrait of Christian Bérard, a key figure in French art of the first half of the 20th century close to Jean Cocteau, Louis Jouvet and Christian Dior.
Émile (1825-1927) or Léopold-Émile (1863-1937) Reutlinger, Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), approximately 1900, silver print, 14.3 x 10.2 cm (5.6 x 4 in), mounted on a 16.3 x 10.9 cm (6.4 x 4.2 in) card, handwritten caption on the back: "Loïe Fuller dans le Festin de l’araignée", ("Loïe Fuller in the Spider's Feast"). Estimate : €400/500
Émile (1825-1927) or Léopold-Émile (1863-1937) Reutlinger, Loïe Fuller (1862-1928), approximately 1900, silver print, 14.3 x 10.2 cm (5.6 x 4 in), mounted on a 16.3 x 10.9 cm (6.4 x 4.2 in) card, handwritten caption on the back: "Loïe Fuller dans le Festin de l’araignée", ("Loïe Fuller in the Spider's Feast"). Estimate : €400/500
It will probably take over €3,000/5,000 to land this picture, whose modest size suggests that it was intended for not an exhibition but private viewing at Condé Nast International (notably the publisher of Vogue magazine)—convincing proof being that…
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