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Straw-covered corner armchair

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Straw-covered corner armchair

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For sale on Friday 02 Aug : 16:00 (CEST)

langres, France

SARL SVV Descharmes Didier
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lundi 01 août - 14:00/19:00, Saint Ferjeux

vendredi 02 août - 10:00/15:00, Saint Ferjeux

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ (Budapest, 1894-New York, 1985). "Satiric dancer". Paris, 1926. Gelatin silver, later printing. Signed, titled and dated in pencil (on verso). Provenance: From the private collection of Schroeder New Jersey. Measurements: 20.6 x 25.5 cm (image); 21 x 26 cm (paper). André Kertész had a superb appreciation for the camera's ability to capture dance and people in motion. The one lying on the sofa in this photograph in a completely anti-archetypal pose is the dancer and cabaret performer Magda Förstner, whom Kertész had invited to the studio specifically for the shoot. The image was taken in the workshop of sculptor István Beöthy, as indicated by the sculptural bust next to the armchair, which serves as the model's inspiration. Kertész himself narrates the situation as, "I said to her, 'Do something in the spirit of the studio corner,' and she began to move on the couch. She just made a movement. I took only two photographs... It's wonderful to photograph people in motion. You don't need to shoot hundreds of rolls of film like you do today. It's about capturing the right moment. The moment when something transforms into something else." Photographer André Kertész was known for his innovative approaches to composition and camera angles, although his unique style initially hindered his recognition in the early stages of his career. Self-taught, his early work was published primarily in magazines, which served as an important platform during that time. After fighting in World War I, he moved to Paris, where he worked for VU, France's first illustrated magazine. He became involved with young immigrant artists and the Dada movement, winning critical acclaim and commercial success. In 1936 he emigrated to the United States where he had his solo exhibition in New York at the PM Gallery and worked briefly for the Keystone agency. There he turned down an offer to work for Vogue, feeling it was not right for him. Instead, he chose to work for Life magazine. His New York period was distinguished by his taking photographs from the window of his apartment, immortalizing moments of everyday life always under the conviction that "Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison d'être. Photography is a fixed moment of such a raison d'être, which lives in itself." In 1963, he returned to Paris and took more than 2,000 black and white photographs and nearly 500 slides that capture the essence of the city of Montmartre, the banks of the Seine, its gardens and parks.

Lot 45

Estim. 8 000 - 8 500 EUR

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON (Chanteloup-en-Brie, France, 1908- Céreste, France, 2004). "Matisse", Vence, France, 1944. Gelatin silver, later printing. Signed in ink in the margin and with embossed photographer's copyright stamp (in the margin). Provenance: Reuben private collection, Chicago. Measurements: 25.3 x 37 cm (image); 31 x 40.8 cm (paper). Henri Cartier-Bresson immortalized French painter Henri Matisse in villa "Le Rêve," his home in the Alpes-Maritimes, when publisher Pierre Braun asked him to photograph writers and artists for a book project that never materialized. At the time the Fauvist painter was 70 years old and, having undergone surgery years earlier, his condition forced him to be prostrate in a chair or bed, as seen in the tendered snapshot. In Le Rêve Matisse drew and painted the white doves that flitted around his room, as well as his regular models, Micaela Avogadro and Lydia Delectorskaya. The Fauvist also spent time in his Nice apartment, where Cartier-Bresson also photographed him. Bresson himself said of these visits to the villa, "When I went to see Matisse, I sat in a corner, I didn't move, we didn't talk. It was as if we didn't exist." Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a master of photography and one of the first users of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and considered photography as capturing a decisive moment. His first major reportage trip took him to the Ivory Coast in 1931.Photographs from his many travels quickly found a forum in magazines and exhibitions. He also gained experience in New York with Paul Strand. In the late summer of 1937, before the battle of Belchite, he traveled to Spain with Herbert Kline, former editor of New Theater magazine, and cameraman Jacques Lemare to shoot a documentary on the American Medical Bureau during the Spanish Civil War. They filmed at Villa Paz, the International Brigades hospital in Saelices, not far from Madrid, and on the coast of Valencia to document the recovery of wounded volunteers in the villas of Benicàssim. They also visited the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Quinto, near Zaragoza, and shot the film With the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain. From 1937 to 1939, Cartier-Bresson was assistant director on three films by Jean Renoir, including The Rules of the Game. In 1940, he spent nearly three years as a prisoner of war in Germany. After it was erroneously assumed that he had died in the war, the Museum of Modern Art in New York dedicated a major "posthumous" retrospective to Cartier-Bresson in 1947. That same year, together with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger, he founded the Magnum Photos agency in New York with the aim of preserving the rights to the photographers' work. Cartier-Bresson was the first photographer allowed to exhibit at the Louvre in Paris in 1955. His photographs were collected and published in Images à la sauvette (1952, Images in passing), D'une Chine à l'autre (1968, China yesterday and today) and Moscou (1955, Moscow), among others. Cartier-Bresson stopped taking professional photographs in 1972 and devoted himself intensely to the art of drawing. In 1974 he was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Lot 158

Estim. 1 500 EUR

Vico Magistretti for Cassina - Pair of Fiandra sofas and two armchairs, 1975 Composed of modular elements that make up in-line and corner configurations. The frame is made of beech plywood and the feather cushion cover is attached by means of hinges and is removable. The upholstery is in excellent condition except for a small tear in a bottom corner visible in the photo.Composed of modular elements that make up in-line and corner configurations. The frame is beech plywood, and the feather cushion cover is attached by hinges and is removable. The upholstery is in excellent condition except for a small tear in a bottom corner visible in the photo.

Lot 185

Starting price 10 EUR

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