Photography
George Platt Lynes 'Mel Fellini', 1950
George Platt Lynes 'Mel Fellini', 1950
£5,000.00
George Platt Lynes American 1907-1955
Mel Fellini, 1950
£5,000
Silver print
Studio stamp (verso)
20cm × 23cm (45cm × 46cm framed)
A major force in American 20th century photography, he took his first photographs as a young artist living in New York and Paris in the 1920s. He maintained an interest in the male figure throughout his career and was part of a close-knit group of artists, including Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French, and George Tooker, who explored sexuality and the body in an age that increasingly favoured abstraction.