Le Jeu de 3 Cerises (Work on Paper).
[Paris], 1956. 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 (Guy Bourdin) and dated in black ink to lower margin, with manuscript title to lower margin. Minor discoloration at corners.
Item #32199
Price: $6,500.00