ZICHY COUNT THEODORE Portfolio entitled 20 Chiaroscuros

Sale 1925 - Lot 64

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ZICHY, COUNT THEODORE<>
Portfolio entitled "20 Chiaroscuros." Silver prints, 11 1/4x9 1/4 inches and slightly smaller, each with Zichy's signature, in pencil, on mount recto along with a printed aphorism or epigraph. Folio, leatherette, with corners bumped. one of an, apparently, unfulfilled edition of 100 copies.<> Buckinghamshire, [Circa 1940]

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The mysterious, eccentric photographer Theodore Zichy claimed to be of nobel lineage. He set up a studio in London where he produced a series of fetishist images that foreshadow the works of Helmut Newton and Pierre Molinier, the transvestite performance artist. Zichy's obsession with long-legged women has a sado-masochistic edge that is heightened by the dramatic chiaruscuro lighting he uses so effectively. While Zichy characterized this effort as "a first edition prepared in one hundred numbered and autographed copies. . . intended for the photographer's friends," this copy is unnumbered.<