CALVOCORESSI (Richard). - Lot 47

CALVOCORESSI (Richard). Lee Miller. Portraits from a Life. London, Thames & Hudson, 2002. Large quarto (25 x 30 cm), illustrated publisher’s hardcover. Extensive black-and-white and color illustrations. Bibliography, chronology, and index. Text in English. 224 pp. First edition of this important monograph dedicated to Lee Miller (1907–1977), published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the artist’s death. Art historian and director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Richard Calvocoressi traces the entire career of this major figure in 20th-century surrealism and photography: a Vogue model, muse and collaborator of Man Ray, fashion photographer, portraitist, war correspondent for Vogue during World War II, and later a keen chronicler of Europe’s postwar reconstruction. The book brings together a vast collection of portraits taken by Lee Miller and photographs of her, as well as numerous archival documents and portraits of artists, writers, musicians, and public figures with whom she associated, offering a particularly comprehensive overview of her career and her artistic milieu. One of the definitive monographs on Lee Miller, richly illustrated and thoroughly documented. Condition: very good copy. Hardcover shows very slight, minor signs of handling. Interior is in perfect condition.