Oct 17, 2019 - Sale 2520

Sale 2520 - Lot 172

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
ILSE BING (1899-1998)
Can Can Dancer, Moulin Rouge, Paris [Spinning Dancer]. Silver print, the image measuring 13 1/2x10 1/2 inches (34.2x26.7 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Bing's signature and date, in ink, on recto, and her signature and date, in pencil, and inventory notations, also in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1931; printed 1983
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

Acquired from the Edwynn Houk Gallery, N.Y. to a Private N.Y. Collector.

This print was included in the Bing's Master Set, which was conveyed to her dealer Edwyn Houk. It included her favorite images and was meant to perpetuate her artistic legacy and exacting standards as a photographic printer.


Nancy C. Barrett. Ilse Bing: Femmes, de le'Enfance à la Vieillesse 1929/1955 (Paris: Éditions Des Femmes, 1982), pl. 8.

Ilse Bing: Three Decades of Photography (New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1985), p. 43, pl. 8.

Larissa Dryansky & Edwynn Houk, editors. Ilse Bing: Paris 1931-1952 (Paris: Musee Carnavalet, 1988), pl. 47.

Ilse Bing: Photography Through the Looking Glass (New York: Abrams, 2006), p. 155.