Dec 11, 2008 - Sale 2166

Sale 2166 - Lot 175

Price Realized: $ 15,600
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 14,000 - $ 18,000
MOÏ VER (RAVIV-VOROBEICHIC, MOSHÉ). Paris, 80 Photographies de Moï Ver. Introduction by Fernand Léger. Beautifully illustrated with collotype reproductions of Moï Ver's photographs, photomontages, superimpositions and collages. 4to, photo-pictorial stiff wrappers, lightly soiled; text block detached. Roth 70; Parr/Badger I 128; Hasselblad 101; Auer 174. first edition, one of 100 numbered copies. Paris: Éditions Jeanne Walter, 1931
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A scarce title and modernist masterpiece, "Paris" is a visual tour-de-force that relies on cinematic rhythms and sequencing to lyrically evoke the City of Light. Moï Ver's kinetic, seemingly multi-dimensional photocollages depict fashionably-dressed citizens alongside local laborers set against the background of city streets. Bereft of any text but Léger's brief introduction, its mis-en-scene conveys the exciting texture of sophisticated urban life in the pre-World War II years.