Oiseaux Voraces Mangeant les Cerises et Laissant les Queues (Work on Paper).
[Paris], circa 1956. Mixed media work on paper (17.25 x 23.25 inches). One of a group of artworks from famed fashion photographer Guy Bourdin; this being an impressively detailed work involving one of his favorite subjects—birds—voraciously eating cherries while leaving the stems. 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 narrative instincts that would come to distinguish 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.
Item #32195
Price: $6,500.00