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LAURE ALBIN-GUILLOT. La Déesse Cypris.
Text by Henry de Montherlant. Illustrated with 12 photogravures of Albuin-Guillot's nude studies, the images measuring 7¾x6⅛ to 10⅜x5⅞ inches (19.7x15.6 to 26.4x15 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse. Folio-sized printed cream paper wrappers; content loose as issued; matching slipcase. FIRST EDITION. Paris: Henri Colas, Éditeur et Bordeaux: Rousseau Frères, [1946]
This portfolio is numbered "86" from 190 illustrated with 12 photogravures (from a total edition of 250).
Laure Albin-Guillot, figured prominently in Parisian photographic circles of the 1920s-1940s. She is noted for her microphotographs and especially for her beautiful nudes, was closely associated with the Ecole de Paris, and called by Peter Pollack and Emmanuel Sougez the muse of portraiture and decorative fantasies. She was an ardent supporter of women in the arts and was appointed president of the "Union féminine des carrières libérales et commerciales," and a governor of the Direction des Beaux-Arts. She exhibited widely and organized the exhibition "Femmes artistes d'Europe."
