HORST P. HORST (1906–1999) Mainbocher Corset, Paris, August 11th, 1939

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1960s 32,2 x 24,2 cm Signed by the photographer in pencil on the reverse, early dark version PROVENANCE Cathleen Naundorf Collection, to the present owner LITERATURE American Vogue, September 15, 1939; 'C'était hier', French Vogue, December 1939, pp. 34-35; Hall-Duncan, Valentine Lawford, Horst: His Work and His World, London 1984, p. 184; Harrison and Bailey, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, London 1985, cat. no. 71; Martin Kazmaier, Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, London 1991, pl. 8; Hans Michael Koetzle, Photo Icons: Volume 2, Cologne 2002, pp. 38-45.