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(PIN-UPS)
Group of 8 rare hand-painted pin-up enlargements, featuring grinning ladies kicking their legs,
posing beautifully in lacy lingerie, and some nudes; each nearly fully hand-painted in bright colors.
Hand-painted silver prints, sizes ranging from 15
3
/
4
x12 to 19
3
/
4
x15
7
/
8
inches (40x30.5 to 50.2x40.3
cm.). Circa 1930s
[3,500/4,500]
These may have been used to promote burlesque shows, or possibly intended as window cards in the fronts of theaters.
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(EROTICA—DERRIÈRE)
Group of 31 rare and exceptional French
photographs of the female derrière, including
scenes of female domination, bondage, and
women posing coyly from behind. Usually with
one or 2 but sometimes 3 figures posed together
in erotic and fetishistic scenes, often with props;
also includes multiple images from the same
narrative sequence; primarily made in Paris, but
also from Vienna. Silver prints (2 are hand
tinted), sizes ranging from 2
1
/
8
x2
3
/
8
to 5
3
/
4
x3
3
/
4
inches (5.4x6 to 14.6x15.2 cm.), and the reverse,
the 2 smallest images cornered into a sheet.
1900s-30s
[2,500/3,500]
This lot includes photographs by Grundworth (an
“amateur”non-commercial photographer working in hotel
rooms using prostitutes as models), the Ostra/Biederer
Studio, and 2 Hungarian brothers obsessed with fetish
clothing, female domination and bondage tableaux who
created unsurpassed genre imagery.
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