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Lillian Bassman

The Little Furs, Barbara Mullen, Russian broadtail jacket by Trigère and hat by Lilly Daché, Essex House, New York

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000
Lot Details
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
1955
22 1/4 x 17 1/8 in. (56.5 x 43.5 cm)
Signed in ink and numbered 24/25 in pencil on the photographer's label affixed to the verso.
Catalogue Essay
"It was sexually a very different thing when [the models] worked with men. They felt a charge. . . I caught them when they were relaxed, natural, and I spent a lot of time talking to them about their husbands, their lovers, their babies." - Lillian Bassman

Lillian Bassman

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