Lillian Bassman - Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Collection of Peter Fetterman New York Thursday, June 18, 2020 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the photographer

  • Literature

    Solomon, Lillian Bassman: Women, p. 119

  • 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

23

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

1955
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
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.

Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $15,000

Contact Specialist

Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs

+1 212 940 1245

Tailor-Made: Fashion Photographs from the Collection of Peter Fetterman

Online Auction 18 - 25 June 2020