[Rarebooks] FS: Uncommon SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH of Colette

[Charles Agvent]

COLETTE, Sidonie-Gabrielle. SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. . A striking 5-1/2" x 
7-1/2" black-and-white silver print portrait on a 9" x 11-1/2" mount 
[circa 1930s] surrounded by 9 smaller 1-1/2" x 2" photographs of 
different poses cut from a contact sheet, some still connected. The 
larger photograph is SIGNED by the photographer "Studio d'Art 
Photomaton." Colette has INSCRIBED and SIGNED below the large portrait 
of her in French which roughly translates as "to my old friend/Willy 
Michel,/with a charged eye/[?]/in memory of/Colette." Willy Michel was 
an interesting character, a photographer who liked to join his subjects 
in the photographs he took: French celebrities, writers, artists, etc. 
He began starring in a series of photo booth portraits in 1928 that 
would continue for 20 years, sitting in the booth with his subjects so 
that they might react to his presence. These photobooth images of 
Colette differ from his usual in that she is either alone or with her 
dog. Near Fine. (#019993)      $1,500

https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/019993/sidonie-gabrielle-colette/signed-photograph

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