2550 - Homosexuality - LGBTQ - Manen, Hans van. Nacho Duato. Two gelatin-silver prints on thin cardboard. Vintages. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on the reverse with a black fiber-tip pen. 1987. Copies: 3/10 and 4/10. Image dimensions: 37 x 37 cm. Sheet dimensions: 43 x 39 cm.

Homosexuality - LGBTQ - Manen, Hans van. Nacho Duato. Two gelatin-silver prints on thin cardboard. Vintages. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered on the reverse with a black fiber-tip pen. 1987. Copies: 3/10 and 4/10. Image dimensions: 37 x 37 cm. Sheet dimensions: 43 x 39 cm. This diptych by Dutch dancer and choreographer Hans van Manen (1932–2025), who is internationally regarded as one of the great innovators and most significant choreographers of contemporary ballet, depicts his Spanish colleague Nacho Duato. The ballet dancer and choreographer Juan Ignacio Duato Barcia (b. 1957) danced leading roles at the Nederlands Dans Theater in most of Kylián’s choreographies, as well as in ballets by Hans van Manen and Ohad Naharin, before becoming artistic director of the Staatsballett Berlin in 2014. - In the 1980s and 1990s, Van Manen—known as the “Mondrian of dance”—developed, parallel to his career as a choreographer, a small, carefully composed body of photographic work comprising portraits of dancers and male nude models. Van Manen’s inspiration and mentor was Robert Mapplethorpe, whom he knew personally. - In December 2024, a year before his death, van Manen donated his photographic oeuvre to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam: “Hans van Manen’s powerful photographs bear witness to his vision as a choreographer. The unique tone of his work makes it an important part of Dutch photography of the 1980s.” (Taco Dibbits, Director of the Rijksmuseum). - Edges slightly worn in places, otherwise in very good condition.