HAUSMANN Raoul (1886-1971) Lot n° 181

Nos Dames de Paris, 1939 Gelatin-silver print, overprint, titled and dated twice on the back 24.7 x 17.3 cm HM: 23 x 15.5 cm Nos Dames de Paris, 1939 Gelatin-silver print, overprint, titled and dated twice on the back 9.73 x 6.82 inch. HM: 9.06 x 6.11 inch. Note: Nos Dames de Paris is one of the great avant-garde images of the 1930s, manipulated in various ways: double exposure, overprinting, solarization... It results from the superposition of six negatives. Nos Dames de Paris is one of the great images of the avant-garde of the 1930s, manipulated in various ways: double exposure, overprinting, solarization... It is the result of the superposition of six negatives. Provenance: Collection Edmonde et Lucien Treillard, Paris Bibliography: Alain Sayag, Collection de photographies du Musée national d'art moderne, 1905-1948, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996, p. 220 (AM 1996-525) " Everything can be transformed, deformed, eliminated by light. Its flexibility is the same as that of the brush, exactly." MAN RAY