May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 186

Price Realized: $ 845
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(NUDES)
Album containing 190 exuberant photographs of tempting pin-up girls, who are presented in a variety of fun scenarios (several of which are played out in the photographer's living room). With scenes of a dark-haired beauty sexily removing her corset, a Bettie Page look-a-like displaying her long legs on a leopard couch, plus a young woman decorously testing her bubble bath, an African American beauty preparing herself to skinny dip in a pond, an author thoughtfully disrobing after finishing a manuscript, and scenes of ladies on the beach. Ferrotyped silver prints, 4 1/2x3 1/2 inches (11.4x8.9 cm.), prints are cornered 4 per page (recto and verso); a few with numeric notations in the negative. Large 4to, spiral-bound leatherette. 1950s

Additional Details

with--Group of 20 issues of NUS magazine, including Albums 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, and Nus (André de Dienes) and Nus Exotiques, with images by Paul Facchetti. Issues feature pictures by de Dienes, Serge Jacques, Veronése, Fritz Henle, and others; includes duplicate issues. Small folios, photo-pictorial wrappers. 1940s-50s.