May 14, 2009 - Sale 2180

Sale 2180 - Lot 284

Price Realized: $ 16,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
HORST, HORST P. (1906-1999)
Lillian Marcuson. Platinum print, 18 1/4x15 inches (46.4x38.1 cm.), with Horst's signature and edition notations AP, in pencil, on verso. 1950; printed 1980s

Additional Details

Horst: His Work and His World, 312.
Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, 105.


Horst was one of the most important fashion photographers of the 20th-century. Throughout Horst's 60-year-long career, he crafted many indelible images of iconic women that crystallized fashion photography as an art form. His highly-stylized photographs of beautifully-attired models also conveyed the seduction of consumption. Horst's photographs are testaments to an era when sophistication, glamour and fashion were effortlessly intertwined.