Loterie National (Work on Paper).
[Paris], 1957. Mixed media work on paper (19.75 x 25.5 inches) from famed fashion photographer Guy Bourdin; this instance—inventing an absurd lottery system—expressing the motif of games and amusements that appears throughout his work. 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. This work SIGNED (Bourdin) and dated in black ink, with accompanying manuscript title. Minor surface wear to lower portion.
Item #32198
Price: $6,500.00