Fernand Fonssagrives

Lot 85: Lisa, 1949

Name: Lisa, 1949
Brand: Christie's
SKU: 4cxh72k5sw

Est: $20,000 USD - $30,000 USDSold:

Christie'sNew York, NY, USApril 10, 2008

Item Overview

Description

FERNAND FONSSAGRIVES (1910-2003)
Lisa, 1949
gelatin silver print
signed in pencil and credit in ink (on the verso)
9¾ x 7 1/8in. (24.8 x 18cm.)

Artist or Maker

Fernand Fonssagrives

Provenance

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Notes

The figure in this image is the photographer's wife Lisa. The picture was made in the year of their divorce. She was to marry Irving Penn, whom she had met in 1947 and who graciously acknowledged Fernand Fonssagrives for 'making some of the most beautiful images we have of joy, health and sport in the out of doors'. ( Fernand Fonssagrives An Eye for Beauty , p. 9)

Auction Details

Photographs From The Collection Of Gert Elfering

Christie's

April 10, 2008, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US

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