01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Florence Henri's Line Viala, #245

Florence Henri (1893–1982)

Detail; Line Viala, c. 1934

Gelatin silver print, mounted on board

9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.8 x 16.8 cm.)

Private collection

Florence Henri (1893–1982)

Line Viala, c. 1934

Gelatin silver print, mounted on board

9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.8 x 16.8 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for USD 5,040 in Apr 2022

Line Viala, real name Hélène Stiévenard , is a French singer and actress born on 30 August 1910 in Choisy-le-Roi( Seine ) and died on 26 March 1998 in Saint-Cloud ( Hauts-de-Seine ).

Line Viala was a famous French actress and accordionist in the guinguette style of the 1930s. She recorded 18 songs on 78 rpm between 1937 and 1939.

She studied piano at the Conservatory, but out of independence moved in with a painter friend and launched herself into the music hall to survive. The Crosio brothers made her into a light and perfected model of piano-key accordion .

Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet opened the doors of Radio Cité for her.

Accordéon and La fête au village , two songs by Jacqueline Batell were great successes. She also sang the famous German song Yes Sir.

In 1934, she posed nude for the photographer (and painter) Florence Henri.
She stared (role of Aimée) in the film Le Café du port by Jean Choux released in 1940.

She left France for New York during the occupation (as her companion at the time risked deportation). When she returned to France in 1948, she turned the page on the music hall and worked in classical music, notably as an agent for the Czech Quartet. More on Line Viala

Florence Henri (28 June 1893 – 24 July 1982) was a surrealist artist; primarily focusing her practice on photography and painting, in addition to pianist composition. In her childhood, she traveled throughout Europe, spending portions of her youth in Paris, Vienna, and the Isle of Wight. She studied in Rome, where she would encounter the Futurists, finding inspiration in their movement. From 1910 to 1922, she studied piano in Berlin. She would find herself landlocked to Berlin during the first World War, supporting herself by composing piano tracks for silent films. She returned to Paris in 1922, to attend the Académie André Lhote, and would attend until the end of 1923. From 1924 to 1925, she would study under painters Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académie Moderne. Henri's most important artistic training would come from the Bauhaus in Dessau, in 1927, where she studied with masters Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy, who would introduce her to the medium of photography. She returned to Paris in 1929 where she started seriously experimenting and working with photography up until 1963. Finally, she would move to Compiègne, where she concentrated her energies on painting until the end of her life in 1982. Her work includes experimental photography, advertising, and portraits, many of which featured other artists of the time. More on Florence Henri

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