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Gabrielle Coco Chanel

Creator: Horst P. Horst -Coco Chanel
Offered by: Kulik Selzer

Description
Title: Gabrielle Coco Chanel
Print: Platinum palladium print, printed on strathmore cotton paper
Date: 1937, printed later
Signature: Signed Horst in Pencil on recto and vesrso
Size: Paper 35.3 cm x 27.8 cm, Image 23.7 cm x 22.7 cm.

This portrait was created when Chanel was at the height of her fame. Horst's arrangement of the furnishings, fabrics and lighting creates an atmospheric silhouette. Chanel is framed by her emblematic gold jewellery but poised with a cigarette and reclining into a plush satin chair, somehow Horst reveals a gentler side to Chanel.

Horst modernised fashion photography, as an innovator of taste and a twentieth century master of light it was Coco Chanel who insisted that only Horst be allowed to take her photograph. Horst confessed the first session was "a flop" but the second produced this image that was to remain Chanel's favourite.

More Information

Documentation:	Signed
Origin:	United States
Period:	1920-1949
Materials:	Platinum Palladium Print
Condition:	Fair. slight foxing
Creation Date:	1937
Styles / Movements:	Black & White
Book References:	Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style, Harry N. Abrams 2001
Incollect Reference #:	242152

Dimensions

W.	10.94 in;	H.	13.9 in;
W.	27.8 cm;	H.	35.3 cm;

Message from Seller:

Kulik Selzer specializes in curating modern libraries on visual culture and design, as well as sourcing exceptional pieces of modern design and decorative arts. Viewings are available by appointment at our showrooms in London and Rancho Santa Fe. Contact us at 858.269.2422 or email babette@kulikselzer.com.