Category: 1930s

Érotique Voilée, 1933

Man Ray :: Érotique Voilée (Veiled Eroticism), 1933, gelatin silver print. Inscribed ‘Meret Oppenheim dans l’atelier de Marcoussis, 15 rue Hégesippe-Moreau’ in ink (on the verso). | src Christie’s

Assia Granatouroff, 1935

Rémy Duval · Assia [Ukrainian model Assia Granatouroff], 1935. Photograph compiled later in ‘28 Etudes de Nus’, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, Paris, 1936. | src Flickr | originally posted on tumblr

The Band Wagon, 1931

Florence Vandamm (uncredited on source) :: Tilly Losch in “The Band Wagon”, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | src Museum of the city of New York
Florence Vandamm :: Tilly Losch in “The Band Wagon”, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | src Museum of the city of New York
Florence Vandamm :: Tilly Losch in “The Band Wagon”, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | src Museum of the city of New York
Florence Vandamm :: Tilly Losch in “The Band Wagon”, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | src Museum of the city of New York
Florence Vandamm :: Tilly Losch in “The Band Wagon”, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | src Museum of the city of New York
Florence Vandamm :: Tilly Losch in “The Band Wagon”, 1931. Gelatin silver print. | src Museum of the city of New York

Gieb acht, mein lieber Jägermann

Gerhard Riebicke :: Gieb acht, mein lieber Jägermann, 13-10-1934.
Caption reads: “Be careful, my dear Jägersmann (Hunter man),
That woman can hurt you badly
Her arrow bears embers and fire!”

Riebicke was a sports photographer from Berlin known especially from the nudes from the film “Wege zu Kraft und Schönheit” (1925). In 1940 large parts of his archives were destroyed during a bombing. Vintage Riebicke prints have become very rare. He was the most important sport, dance and nudism (FKK – Freikorperkultur) photographer in Germany between 1925 and 1935. His images were widely printed in Germany as well internationally in magazines, newspapers and books. | src anamorfose (broken link)

Vase aux Iris et Orchidées

irises or orchids
Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962) :: Vase aux Iris | Vase with Iris, 1938 | src tout ceci est magnifique
Laure Albin-Guillot (1879-1962) :: Vase aux orchidées (*), 1938. Épreuve au charbon, tirage Fresson, signée et datée au recto, inscription manuscrite « New York expo Art décoratif français » au verso | src Piasa auction Dec. 2016 (lot 11)

(*) Note: not orchids but irises; vase with irises. Unless they were a variety of orchids that look very much like irises. If anybody happen to have the knowledge to disambiguate, please drop a line below. Thank you!

Laure Albin-Guillot :: Orchidées 1927. Carbon Fresson print, on metalised golden paper. | src Luminous Lint LL/50901
Laure Albin-Guillot :: Orchidées, 1927. Carbon Fresson print, on metalised golden paper. Auctioned at Sotheby’s May 2013 PF 1310 Lot 79. | src Luminous Lint : LL/50901

“Le sujet le plus banal, quelques fleurs dans un vase par exemple, devient nouveau par la façon dont les lumières y sont groupées et par l’extrème variété des valeurs. (…) Pour donner plus de richesse à ses compositions, l’auteur [Laure Albin Guillot] les a tirées sur fond or selon un procédé dont elle a le brevet.”
Jean Gallotti, ‘La photographie est-elle un art? Laure Albin-Guyot [sic!]’, dans L’art vivant, No. 99, 1er février 1929, p. 138. [Quoted from Sotheby’s]

La prière by Man Ray, 1930

Man Ray :: La prière | The prayer, 1930. Ferrotyped gelatin silver print, printed ca. 1960
Signed, dated and numbered ‘0/8’ in ink (recto); signed and annotated ‘original’ in pencil (verso) | src Christie’s