Virginia Woolf
(1939); printed (c. 1975)
Medium
type C photograph
Measurements
29.9 × 20.2 cm (image) 40.0 × 30.0 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1981
Copyright by / GISÈLE FREUND / All rights reserved
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
In 1933 Gisèle Freund fled Frankfurt for Paris, where she studied photographic portraiture at the Sorbonne. Uniquely for the time, she used Kodachrome and Agfacolor positive film for her colour portraits of writers and artists in Paris – her portrait of James Joyce was selected as the first colour cover of Time magazine in 1939. That same year she photographed Virginia Woolf at her home in Tavistock Square, London. Freund later recalled of her encounter with Woolf, ‘frail, luminous, she was the very incarnation of her prose’.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Inscription
artist chop mark (in image) l.r.: GF (GF encircled)
inscribed in blue ink l.r.: Giséle Freund
artist stamp in ink on reverse c.: Copyright by / GISÉLE FREUND / All rights reserved
Accession Number
PH64-1981
Department
International Photography