Chat Rouge Accroupi (Work on Paper).
[Paris], circa 1956. Mixed media work on paper (19.75 x 25.5 inches). One of a group of artworks from famed fashion photographer Guy Bourdin; this being a particularly colorful composition, featuring one of Bourdin's favorite subjects: cats. Executed at the dawn of his decades-long collaboration with Vogue, these playful mixed media works display the Surrealist influence of Bourdin's mentor Man Ray, as well as the distinct narrative approach that would come to define his visual style. Although the subject of solo exhibitions at Galerie de Beaune (1954), Galerie de Seine (1956), and New York's Peter Deitsch Gallery (1957), Bourdin's works on paper have yet to receive their due as foundational, pre-photographic moments in his oeuvre. A remarkably well-preserved example, SIGNED (Guy Bourdin) in black ink to lower corner; title supplied in pencil to verso. A preliminary pencil sketch for another work also appears faintly to verso.
Item #32194
Price: $6,500.00