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Softcover, 290 x 205 mm, publisher’s flapped pictorial wrappers, pp.: [1-7] 8-205 [3], text in English, French, and German, profusely illustrated. First edition published in 2011. Title-page: Edited by Dian Hanson | LA | PETITE | MORT | § | PHOTOGRAPHS BY SANTILLO | TASCHEN || Hanson, Dian (American, b. 1951) – editor/text Santillo, William (American) – photographer -
Hardcover, 240 x 192 mm, glossy pictorial boards, lettering to front and spine, pp.: [1-5] 6-171 [172], with 308 plates in colour and b/w. Catalogue of the exhibition held on March 26 – June 1, 1980, at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Title-page: DOKUMENTE DER PHOTOGRAPHIE 1 | FRITZ KEMPE | NICOLA PERSCHEID | ARTHUR BENDA | MADAME D'ORA | Katalog bearbeitet | von Odette M. Appel-Heyne | MUSEUM FUR KUNST UND GEWERBE HAMBURG 1980 || Contributors: Kempe, Fritz (German, 1909 –1988) – author Appel-Heyne, Odette M. – editor Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963) – photographer Perscheid, Nicola (German, 1864 – 1930) – photographer Benda, Arthur (German, 1885 – 1969) – photographer -
Black and white photographic half-length portrait of Fred Astaire [Frederick Austerlitz] (American, 1899 – 1987) in sailor's uniform, signed "Fred Astaire" in black ink. Probably, from "Following the Fleet", a 1936 American RKO musical comedy. Size: 26.2 x 20.6 cm sheet; 23.3. x 19.3 cm image. Certificate of authenticity from John Reznikoff, University Archives. -
A silver-bromide print 390 x 290 mm depicting actor and singer Maurice Chevalier in a straw hat, smiling, with his head in ¾, facing to the left, dry mounted on cardboard. Signature in white manuscript to the bottom-right corner “d’ORA | PARIS”. Sitter: Chevalier, Maurice Auguste (French, 1888 – 1972) Artist: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963) -
A silver-bromide print 22 x 16 cm depicting a sitting woman, naked, in a veiled hat, with the torso in profile, turning her head ¾ towards the viewer, with a black terrier lying under her right hand. Artist’s device in the top-right corner: “d'Ora | Benda”. According to the seller, it is a portrait of Lisa Petersen, a nude dancer. Artist: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963) -
Gelatin silver print 212 x 153 mm depicting a sitting woman in a dress with a dotted sheer top and exposed chest, in a hat, with the torso in ¾, turning her head to face the viewer and supporting her head with her right hand. Artist’s device in the bottom-right corner: “d'Ora | Benda”. This is likely a portrait of a Parisian milliner, Madame Agnès, i.e. Agnès Rittener (French, d. 1949).Verso: Blue ink stamp: Copyright | d'ORA | Wien, I. | Arthur Benda | 14160 (ms pencil) || Below pasted a label with blue lettering, framed: AG. SCHOSTAL PARIS | 81, RUE BLANCHE | TEL. TRINITÉ 23.05 | № 7835 (ms red pencil) / WIEN | STARHEMBERGG. 26 | TEL. U-42-0-81 | № 48283 (ms graphite pencil) / MILANO | VIA VIVAIO 24 | Tel. 24,244 | № BEI VERÖFFENTLICHUNG ZU NENNEN: | PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE: MENTION OBLIGATOIRE: MENZIONE OBBLIGATORIA: | d'Ora Benda, Wien (SCHOSTAL) || Agentur Schostal was an Austrian press photo agency named after its founder, Robert Franz Schostal (German, 1906 - c. 1973). Artist: Kallmus, Dora [Madame d’Ora] (Austrian-Jewish, 1881 – 1963)
LIB-3351.2024 Madame d’Ora / edited by Monika Faber. – Munich, London, NY: Prestel Verlag / Neue Galerie, 2020, p.101.
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Audrey Hepburn [Audrey Kathleen Ruston] (British, 1929 – 1993) black and white head-shot in profile to right, pre-production photo testing hairstyle. "War and Peace", a 1956 epic historical drama film based on Leo Tolstoy's 1869 novel of the same name. Stamp on verso: Blue ink, in oval, "AUDREY | HEPBURN | The Personal Collection Part III | May 2018 | CHRISTIE'S || Size: 12.0 x 17.5 cm sheet; 12.0 x 16.7 cm image. Condition: small abrasion to cheek and rough lower edge. Certificate of authenticity from John Reznikoff, University Archives.
