Étude Millon will be auctioning off 311 photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. The sale will be overseen by Christophe Gœury, and will include: several nudes from the Herschrtitt collection; more than 300 Gisèle Freund prints, sold in lots, at the request of the Administration Française du Domaine; the Roland et Patricia collection (friends of Édouard Boubat); the Narda Vleming collection (one of Eva Besnyö’s models); the Monsieur X collection; and photographs from the exhibition Autoregards.

Beginning in the 1960s, the Léon Herschtritt collection consists of sixty nude photographs by Man Ray and François Kollar (printed by Pierre Gassmann), Jeanloup Sieff, Edouad Boubat, Sam Haskins, Pierre Tabard and Frank Horvat. The collection’s estimated value is 400 - 8,000€.

The Gisèle Freund prints feature a number of writers and artists: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Colette, André Malraux, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett, André Gide, Aldous Huxley, Walter Benjamin, Matisse, Bonnard, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Jorge Luis Borges and several works of documentary photography.

Also on sale are five vintage prints by Jacques-Henri Lartigue: Mardi gras avec Bouboutte, Louis, Robert et Zissou (1903), Bablot sur Delage and Accident d'aéroplane, Elégante au Bois de Boulogne and Bibi dans son manteau de Poiret (1922). Estimated value: 10,000 - 30,000€

Bernard PERRINE
Bernard.Perrine1@orange.fr

Auction
Tuesday, November 13, 2012 at 2.30 pm

Exhibition
Saturday, November 10, 2012 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, November 11, 2012 11 am – 6 pm
Monday, November 12, 2012 11 am – 7 pm
Tuesday, November 12, 2012 11 am – noon

Expert
Christophe Goeury
+ 33 (0)1 42 54 16 83
+ 33 (0)6 16 02 64 91
Salle V V
3 rue Rossini
75009 Paris