From the artist to Nancy Hall-Duncan Christie's, London, by private treaty, November 2006 Christie's, New York, Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection, 16-17 December 2008, lot 222 and Icons of Glamour and Style: The Constantiner Collection Part II, 12 February 2009, lots 30, 75, 87 and 88
Exhibited
New York, George Eastman House, The History of Fashion Photography, 25 June–2 October 1978, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 18 November 1977–8 January 1978, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, 3 March–16 April 1978, The Art Institute of Cincinnati, Ohio, 18 May–31 July 1978, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 30 August–30 September 1978, for L’Horizon du Soir le Noir, 1976
Literature
N. Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, New York: Alpine, 1979, p. 197 S. Verthime, ed., Guy Bourdin: In Between, Göttingen: Steidl, 2010, p. 153 for L’Horizon du Soir le Noir, 1976 there titled Vogue Paris, June, 1976 and p. 190 for Fashion Study, French Vogue, circa 1975 there titled Vogue Paris, June, 1975
Catalogue Essay
Titles include: Fashion study, French Vogue, circa 1975; Fashion study, French Vogue, circa 1975; L’Horizon du Soir le Noir, 1976; Fashion study, French Vogue, circa 1975; Fashion study, (Minstrels and models), French Vogue, circa 1975
Early colour prints by Guy Bourdin are rare. They are likely unique prints from a time when Bourdin made virtually no colour prints. Working as he did for the magazine page, he submitted his original transparencies from which the printing plates would be engraved.
circa 1975 Five chromogenic prints. Varying sizes from 16.5 x 24.1 cm (6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in) to 33 x 45.1 cm (13 x 17 3/4 in) or the reverse 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in (16.5 x 24.1 cm)
Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 ‡♠
Sold for £15,000
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