LAURE ALBIN-GUILLOT (1879-1962)

LAURE ALBIN-GUILLOT (1879-1962) Young Woman Reading, Gravure process in sepia, on heavy cardboard, signed lower right in pencil. Mounted under a green-tinted glass screwed into a black mirrored glass frame (cracks). A gravure process in sepia, on heavy cardboard, signed lower right in pencil. Mounted under a green-tinted glass screwed into a black mirrored glass frame (cracks). H 16.3 x L 11.5 cm - H 6 3/8 x W 4 1/2 in. Laure Guillot takes up a classic art-historical subject. By subtly blurring the foreground and background, she brings out a portrait full of intimacy. The light source, a large Canton porcelain vase mounted as a lamp, casts a soft glow over this young woman with her head bowed, highlighting her inner reading. We can easily make out the blond of her hair, the coral red of her necklace and the satin of her outfit. Laure Albin Guillot is a French photographer who has distinguished herself in fashion, nude, advertising and abstract photography. She acted as a bridge between two artistic generations: the Pictorialists, an artistic movement that sought to bring photography closer to painting, and, from the 1920s onwards, the Nouvelle Vision, a group of modernist photographers.