the photographer's blindstamp, signed, titled, dated, and annotated 'SGP' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Holden Luntz Gallery label on the reverse, 1939, printed later

Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, 2004

Horst P. Horst, Form: Horst (Altadena, 1992), pl. 35 Horst: Sixty Years of Photography (New York, 1996), pl. 8

This photograph, on matte-surface paper, is in generally excellent condition. The left and right margin edges are gently rippled. There are tape remnants along the upper edge on the reverse.
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'Paris puts you back in laced corsets – and here they are.  Detolle made the extreme, back-lacing corset . . . to bind you in for the Velasquez silhouette.  This corset is specifically for evening.' (Vogue, 15 September 1939)