Oct 21, 2002 - Sale 1947

Sale 1947 - Lot 223

Unsold
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(PAGE, BETTIE) <>
Suite of 18 intimate photographs of the inimitable Bettie Page taken by her paramour, Charles West. Chromagenic color prints, 2 1/2x3 1/2 inches (6.3x8.8 cm.) and the reverse. Circa 1955
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This unique set of photographs was created by Charles West, then a young Army captain stationed in New York City, and have never before been commercially available. They are from his personal collection and were taken by West in a friend's apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. They show Bettie in rather homespun settings--on a table in the dining room, camping it up in front of a fireplace, and posing on a couch in the living room. She presents herself as flirtatious, ebullient and, of course, sexy.

The originals were shot on color slide film; West purportedly had the prints made shortly after. In an interview in<