Fashion show, Hotel Pierre, New York City

Portfolio TitleTwelve Photographs

Artist Lisette Model (American, born Austria, 1901 - 1983)

Publisher Lunn Gallery (American, 1968 - 1982)

Printer Richard Benson (American, 1943 - 2017)

Printer Gerd Sander (German, born 1940)

Date1940-1946; printed 1976

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet: 15 13/16 × 19 9/16 inches (40.18 × 49.68 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2018.51.63.3

SignedSigned on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Lisette Model"

InscribedEditioned on sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "42/95"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper right, in pencil: "41"

Edition/State/Proofed. 42/75 + 15 APs

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DescriptionImage of two women wearing ornate hats seated at a table with wine glasses. They are both wearing cocktail hats and pearl necklaces. The woman on the left looks toward the viewer with her right hand on her cheek.Gallery Label

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Lisette Model often photographed subjects in unguarded moments, stripping away elegance and laying bare the artifice associated with keeping up appearances. As photographer Edward Steichen once noted: “she strikes swift, hard and sharp…her work is devoid of all extraneous devices or exaggerations.” Model’s unsparing approach to her subjects had a strong influence on Diane Arbus, who studied with Model when she taught at the New School for Social Research from 1951 until her death.

Provenance

With Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY by ca. 1999;
Purchased from Laurence Miller Gallery by private collector ca. 1999;
Purchased at private collector's sale Photographs, Christie's, New York, April 6, 2018, lot 66 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.

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