30.08.2018 “Le Photographe Retrouvé” Otto Wegener

/ Serge Plantureux

OTTO-Portraits 20 aout

 

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Otto Wegener was born in the southern Swedish town of Helsingborgs in 1849.
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Marcel Proust, frequented Otto’s studio. He also brought his favourite ladies from the nobility to Otto’s studio.
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Celebrated as the supreme beauty of her day, Countess Elisabeth Greffulhe (1860-1952) was the triumph of Parisian society when Marcel Proust made her acquaintance in 1892.

Proust pursued her with requests for a photograph, which she staunchly refused. Nonetheless, the countess would inspire Proust’s fiction, becoming a prototype for the glamorous Duchesse de Guermantes in A la recherche du temps perdu…
The exhibition prints had not surfaced for one hundred years, as they were sleeping in a French provincial attic. Otto’s younger son, Arnold Wegener (1871-1948), applied to French citizenship in 1893, and during his military service …
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The catalogue, describing 55 lots, is still in progress and should be ready by mid-September.

Auction in Paris

Thursday 8 November 2018
18 h (6 pm, Paris time)
Hotel des ventes, 9 rue Drouot
Otto
Portraits

Studio collection, exhibition prints, research on colors
gum bichromates in collaboration with Edward Steichen

www.daguerre.fr

Commissaire-priseur : Romain Nouel
Expert : Serge Plantureux

Viewing on appointment:
Étude Daguerre, 5bis, rue du Cirque, Paris 8e
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Viewing at Drouot :
Wednesday 7 November 11h -18 h
Thursday 8 november de 11h -17 h

online auction : Drouot Live

Inquiries about the auction : info
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