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Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(EROTICA--DERRIÈRE) Group of 31 rare and exceptional French photographs of the female derrière, including scenes of female domination, bondage, and women posing coyly from behind. Usually with one or 2 but sometimes 3 figures posed together in erotic and fetishistic scenes, often with props; also includes multiple images from the same narrative sequence; primarily made in Paris, but also from Vienna. Silver prints (2 are hand tinted), sizes ranging from 2 1/8x2 3/8 to 5 3/4x3 3/4 inches (5.4x6 to 14.6x15.2 cm.), and the reverse, the 2 smallest images cornered into a sheet. 1900s-30s
This lot includes photographs by Grundworth (an "amateur" non-commercial photographer working in hotel rooms using prostitutes as models), the Ostra/Biederer Studio, and 2 Hungarian brothers obsessed with fetish clothing, female domination and bondage tableaux who created unsurpassed genre imagery.
