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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03 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Edmund Teske's Nudes, with footnotes # 103

Edmund Teske

Nude Under Image of Weeds , c. 1947

Gelatin silver print, composite photograph

 9 1/2 x 13 3/16 in. (24.1 x 33.5 cm)

Hammer Museum

Edmund Teske

Topanga Canyon, c. 1956, printed 1960

Gelatin silver print

34.6 x 24.2 cm. (13 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Edmund Teske (American, 1911-1996)

Nude, c. 1963

Gelatin silver print

6-3/4 x 6-1/2 inches (17.1 x 16.5 cm) (image/sheet)

Private collection

Edmund Teske credited a grammar school teacher with inspiring his interest in photography. He received his first box camera around 1920. During his adolescence he studied drawing, painting, and music; when he graduated from high school, he built his own darkroom in the basement of the family home. In 1934 Teske took a position as an assistant in a commercial photographic studio in Chicago. He went to Wisconsin two years later, where he took up the first fellowship in photography to be conducted under the guidance of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. In the late 1930s he taught at the New Bauhaus Institute of Design in Chicago, alongside László Moholy Nagy, then moved to New York, where he worked as an assistant to Berenice Abbott.

In the mid-1940s, Teske relocated to Los Angeles, where he initially worked at Paramount Pictures in the photographic still department. He continued to photograph and began to exhibit his images more frequently. His increasing experimentation led to his use of the solarization technique to reverse highlight and shadow. In 1956 he detoured briefly from photography to appear in the film biography of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life. After 1960 he frequently returned to older negatives, reinterpreting them through the use of experimental printing techniques. More on Edmund Teske

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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Wlastimil Hofman's Female Nude on the Ladder, #243

Wlastimil Hofman (1881 - 1970)

Rabuś and Maciuś/ Female Nude on the Ladder, c. 1925

Oil on canvas

198 x 98 cm

Private collection

Sold for  for 52,550.86 US$ in March 2022

The naked woman shown on the ladder in a cheeky gesture places a small, defenseless kitten under the dog's nose. Which one is Robber and which one is Maciuś? It's hard to say today. The ladder itself in the art of symbolism carried many hidden meanings in its structure. It seems that in spite of the painter's passion to reveal hidden meanings and allegories, here we are dealing with a relatively trivial, anecdotal situation. More on this painting

Wlastimil Hofman (27 April 1881 – 6 March 1970) was born in Prague. In 1889 Vlastimil's family moved to Kraków in Polandl. In 1896, he became a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, where he studied under.

In 1899 he went to study painting in Paris. In 1902 he had his first showings in an exhibition by the "Sztuka" society. Further exhibitions followed in Munich, Amsterdam, Rome, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, and Warsaw. In 1907 he was the first Polish painter to be made a member of the Gallery of the Vienna Secession. When his professor, Jacek Malczewski, was appointed the Rector of the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts in 1912, Hofman obtained a teaching post there.

In September 1939 Hofman fled from the Nazi invasion. He managed to avoid Soviet captivity, though in Pomorzany he witnessed Polish soldiers being deported to camps inside Soviet Russia. He reportedly "showed the Polish POWs a lot of compassion and tirelessly painted their portraits on small pieces of cardboard. The portraits were then to be sent to their families." 

Hofman returned to Kraków in June 1946. In the period 1953–1963 he produced religious paintings for the local church, including "Four Evangelists", "The Way of the Rosary", "The Way of the Cross", "The Adoration of the Child". He also produced many portraits of local people, sports figures - especially footballers from his favourite Wisła Kraków team - and also self-portraits. In 1961, he was awarded the Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Wlastimil Hofman died on 6 March 1970. More on Wlastimil Hofman

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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Julian Wasser's Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz, #242

A contact sheet from Julian Wasser’s shoot with Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp on October 12, 1963, at California’s Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), which was hosting the French artist’s first retrospective.

After exchanging her blouse and skirt for a smock, Babitz sat at the chessboard in the center of the room. She waited for Duchamp to appear, Wasser to set up. She chain-smoked, tried to fend off the panicked thoughts swarming her like bees (More on this photograph)

Julian Wasser, American, b. 1938

Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz, c. 1964

Gelatin silver print

Image: 14.5 x 22 in. (36.83 x 55.88 cm.)

Private collection

Estimate for $500 - $700 in June 2019

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. More on Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

Eve Babitz (May 13, 1943 – December 17, 2021) was an American visual artist and author best known for her semi-fictionalized memoirs and her relationship to the cultural milieu of Los Angeles.

In 1963, her first brush with notoriety came through Julian Wasser's iconic photograph of a nude, 20-year-old Babitz playing chess with the artist Marcel Duchamp (See below) on the occasion of his landmark retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum. The show was curated by Walter Hopps, with whom Babitz was having an affair at the time. The photograph is described by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art as being "among the key documentary images of American modern art". More on Eve Babitz

Julian Wasser began his career in photography in the 1950s as a teenager shooting crime scenes in Washington D.C., which he sold to The Washington Post. While working as a copy boy at the Washington bureau of the Associated Press he met Weegee and rode around with the legendary and unflinching press photographer. After university and military service Wasser settled in Hollywood and became a contract photographer for Time, Life and People Magazine. Like his mentor, Wasser has the knack for being in the right place at the right time, and his images possess a graphic bold punch. His photographs from 60s Los Angeles capture a seminal period in the L.A. art scene, groundbreaking musicians and nightclubs, the transition from classical to New Hollywood, and a volatile political and civil rights era. More on Julian Wasser

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