Provenance
Acquired from the Estate of the artist
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Literature
Angeletti and Oliva, In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine, p. 18
Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, p. 46
Fraser, On The Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue, p. 25
Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, p. 65
High Museum of Art, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, p. 192
Kazmaier, Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, pl. 8
Koetzle, Photo Icons: Volume 2, pp. 38 and 43
Lawford, Horst: His Work and His World, p. 184
Lawford and Valentine, Horst 1930 - 1987, p. 28
American Vogue, 15 September 1939
French Vogue, December 1939
Catalogue Essay
“[Mainbocher Corset] was created by emotion It was the last photo I took in Paris before the war. I left the studio at 4:00 a.m., went back to the house, picked up my bags and caught the 7:00 a.m. train to Le Havre to board the Normandie… The photograph is peculiar— for me. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind.”

IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA

Horst P. Horst

Mainbocher Corset, Paris

1939
Platinum palladium print, printed later.
17 7/8 x 13 3/8 in. (45.4 x 34 cm)
Signed in pencil on the recto; signed in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000

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