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Gabrielle Coco Chanel
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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. -
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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;
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