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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Horst P. Horst

Camera Work Portfolio (B)

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Horst P. Horst

1906 - 1999

Camera Work Portfolio (B)


12 gelatin silver prints, each signed and with title, date and annotations in pencil on the reverse

images to: 14½ by 11¼in. (36.8 by 28.6cm.)

Executed in 1937-87, printed in the 1990s.

Collection of Gert Elfering (acquired directly from the photographer's studio)

Christie's New York, 20th Century Photographs: The Elfering Collection, 10 October 2005, Lot 56

Acquired from the above by the present owner

The individual titles and dates are as follows:

Classical Still Life, N. Y., 1937

Houdon Still Life, Paris, 1937

Mainbocher Corset, Paris, Aug. 11, 1939

Dali Costumes, Paris, 1939

Lisa (Fonssagrives-Penn) with Harp, Paris, 1939

Lisa (Fonssagrives-Penn) on Silk I, N. Y., 1940

Marlene Dietrich, N. Y., 1942

Horst with Gertrude Stein, Paris, 1946

Male Nude I (Frontal), N. Y., 1952

Lingerie (Bow & Arrow), N. Y., 1982

American Nude I, N. Y., 1981

Round the Clock I, N. Y., 1987