Au Pays des Visages

by FREUND, GISÈLE. [WOOLF, VIRGINIA; JOYCE, JAMES; SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA; SARTRE; JEAN-PAUL]

$14,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

Washington, DC: Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd, 1977. First edition. Orignial publisher's box. Very Good. A COLLECTION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARTISTS. NUMBER 1 OF 6 COPIES RESERVED FOR ARTIST AND PUBLISHERS, OUT OF A TOTAL OF 36. The present portfolio of Freund's photographic portraits assembles the most celebrated of her innovative colour images. The portfolio is comprised of Freund's portraits of: 1. Colette (1873-1954) 2. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) 3. André Gide (1869-1951) 4. James Joyce (1882-1941) 5. Andreinne Monnier (1892-1955) 6. Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) 7. Simone de Beauvoir (1908) 8. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905) 9. André Malraux (1901-1976) 10. Victoria Sackville-West (1892-1962) It is well documented both Woolf's and Joyce's aversions to sitting for photographs, and indeed "Freund was twice refused admission to Tavistock Square but eventually Woolf succumbed", being "acutely self-conscious and disliked sitting for pictures, never mind 'seeing herself'"(Richard Shone, "Portraits of Virginia Woolf: here, the true face of the modern writer", The Guardian, 20 June 2014). Freund's ability to capture her subjects in states of ease-not to mention in colour-has preserved for posterity valuable likenesses of the most talented creative literary minds of the past century. The authorised release of these portraits, each signed by Freund and numbered and embossed by the publisher, as Au Pays des Visages coincided with Freund's appoin

• Publisher: Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd
• Year: 1977
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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