Nude study
(Étude de nu)
(1943)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
29.5 × 17.9 cm (image) 29.5 × 23.1 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bowness Family Fund for Photography, 2023
© Laure Albin Guillot / Collections Roger-Viollet
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Spanning fashion and portraiture to advertising and landscapes, Laure Albin Guillot’s images were published regularly in magazines and featured in the first independent Salon of Photography in Paris in 1928. Albin Guillot collaborated with French poet Paul Valéry in the 1930s to create male nude images to accompany his poem ‘La Cantate du Narcisse’ (‘The Song of Narcissus’). She continued to produce numerous nude studies of women throughout the 1930s–40s, such as this closely cropped portrait that enhances the angular lines and features of the sitter’s body.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen (in image) l.r.: Laure Albin Guillot
stamped in ink on reverse u.r.: LAURE ALBIN GUILLOT / 43 BOULEVARD DE BEAUSÉJOUR / PARIS • XVIe
Accession Number
2023.589
Department
International Photography