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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR. (American, 1896-1958) BALLET DANCER vintage carbro color print mounted on boar

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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR. (American, 1896-1958) BALLET DANCER vintage carbro color print mounted on boar
PAUL OUTERBRIDGE, JR. (American, 1896-1958) BALLET DANCER vintage carbro color print mounted on board 133/4 x 81/8 in. (34.9 x 21.7 cm) circa 1936 ESTIMATE: $15,000-20,000 PROVENANCE Christie's, NEW YORK, Sale Number 8748, October 9, 1997, Lot 91 Paul Outerbridge, Jr. once said, "In black and white you suggest, in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion but statement demands certainty-absolute certainty. False rendering of colors in black and white often produces arresting tonal contrasts and dynamic prints, but not so in color, where the slightest falsity of colors is both clearly apparent and wholly unacceptable" (Outerbridge, PHOTOGRAPHING IN COLOR, NEW YORK, 1940, p.55). Given these sentiments, Outerbridge must have been challenged by the limitations of the color carbro printing process, but became a master of the medium, influencing others technically and demonstrating the freedoms that this method allowed. This image is an example of Outerbridge's radical work depicting female sexuality and fetishism. One glimpses only the side of the woman's downcast face, while her bare buttocks are frontal and fully exposed. She appears both classical and nanve, but also extremely erotic and amusingly suggestive. Outerbridge said: "The nude should be impersonal; a fatal error is to have your model establish a personal or intimate contact with the person viewing the picture. Have a lovely nude model look directly at the camera, especially with a provocative smile or inviting glint, and you have usually crossed the border between the nude and a particular girl without her clothes on" (Outerbridge, p.67).