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A Nude Ziegfeld Follies Beauty

Artist:Alfred Cheney Johnston
Date:c. 1928
Medium:Silver Gelatin on Double Weight Photostock
Dimensions:Photograph 10 1/2" x 13" Mounted 16" x 20"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Fine Art
Price: S O L D
Above: View of silver gelatin photograph

Lavishly jazz age yet decadently romantic, this nude 1928 photograph of Ziegfeld Follies beauty Alice Lorraine is a spectacular showcase of the talents of Alfred Cheney Johnston. This photograph was mounted on beveled presentation board and hand signed by the iconic photographer, idolized for his masterful soft focus alluring and provocative images of showgirls, flappers, and film stars alike. After Johnston’s death, his heirs began reprinting images from his beloved oeuvre of these 1920s nude photographs, but these original first generation photographs are quite scarce, and doubly so when mounted for gallery display and signed by Johnston himself.

Above: Full view

This fetching nude is a remarkable and groundbreaking image. By facing Alice Lorraine, the sitter, so that she looks into the camera, her personality becomes a central characteristic of the photograph, which was a radical departure from the gauzy anonymous nymph like nudes favored by photographers of the era. Additionally, Johnston’s use of props and shoes in his work, captures the sensational modernism of the Ziegfeld Follies in a way few other surviving artifacts do.

Above: Detail of Alice Lorraine
Above: Photographer’s signature on board
Above: Caption on verso in artist’s hand

A Nude Ziegfeld Follies Beauty

Artist: Alfred Cheney Johnston
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, Alfred Cheney Johnston, fine art, flapper, follies, gelatin silver photograph, jazz age, nude, Ziegfeld Follies
Added to Gallery: May 1, 2010

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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