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LAURE ALBIN-GUILLOT (1879-1962)
Arbres. The portfolio complete with 18 collotype prints, the images measuring 304.8x241.3 mm; 12x9 1/2 inches, each preceded by a printed title page. 4to-sized clamshell box with the embossed title, wear at edges; with the printed title page, preliminary pages, and dialogue by Paul Valéry, the colophon page signed and inscribed by Albin-Guillot and Valéry, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 50 NUMBERED +30 H.C. COPIES, THIS H.C. FOR JEAN-DENIS MAILLART AND SPECIALLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE COLLABORATORS. Bordeaux: Rousseau Frères Éditeurs, 1943.
L'Allée Centenaire * L'ombre de l'Arbre * Le Reflet des Arbres * La Vie et la Mort * Le Sacrifice * Les Arbres Gardiens du Tombeau * L'Arbre en Fleurs * L'Arbre au Milieu des Champs * Le Arbres du Château * Les Peupliers * Le Grand Arbre * L'Arbre Couvert de Givre * Les Arbres du Parc * L'Arbre à Contre Jour * L'Olivier * Les Cyprès * Les Arbres Romantiques * Un Arbre Parisien.
Laure Albin-Guillot's work is not easily categorized. She produced well-known portraits of celebrities of her day, as well as modernist nudes, microphotography of fauna, still lifes, landscapes, and portfolios of work in tandem with noted French writers (offered here as well as lot 140). Her visual approach is best characterized as semi-pictorialist, with soft, luxurious values and a quiet gaze, her technical skill rendering the imagery in both beautiful and precise terms. She published and exhibited widely, and had the first one-person exhibition at the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1925, which garnered her increasing attention and helped establish her reputation. Her fashion work appeared in Vogue (the first in 1922), and other imagery was published in both Vu and Arts & Metiers Graphiques magazines. She was named president of the French Société des Artistes, among other key posts, and served as president of the Union féminine des carrières libérales et commerciales, an organization bent on supporting the interests of women in professional life.
