Noire et Rose | Black and Rose

Noire et Rose | Black and Rose

A woman of color contemplates a rose, from a gum print.

The following commentary on the artists work appeared in the 1905 volume Art in Photography:

M. Georges Grimprel’s work has been seen on several occasions at the Salon and has also been widely reproduced; it is therefore familiar to most English workers and also to a considerable number of the general public who take an interest in photography. Chiefly known for his portraiture and figure studies M. Grimprel has yet essayed, and successfully, other branches of photographic work, his fine harbour study, “Le Havre,” in the Salon of 1902 coming as somewhat of a surprise to his English admirers. Of his figure studies, perhaps “Cigarette,” a graceful and convincing study of a girl enjoying an after-déjeuner cigarette, is the best known example of his method and style of composition. “At Montmartre,” selected for reproduction in the present volume, is marked by those distinctive qualities which M. Grimprel usually manages to infuse into his pictures. (1.)

1. Charles Holme, Art in Photography, With selected examples of European and American Work, Special Summer Number of “The Studio”, London, 1905. Commentary appeared in French section of volume.

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Noire et Rose | Black and Rose
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Image Dimensions18.1 x 15.1 cm tipped to mount | Lieferung 1 | First Issue

Support Dimensions34.4 x 26.4 cm light black colored paper

Print Notes

Recto: Stamped: l.l.: GEORGES GRIMPREL, PARIS NOIRE ET ROSE; within plate at l.l.: MR Co (atelier); signed by the artist with stylized monogram at l.r.: GG; on mount at l.r.: KP, for abbreviated name of journal.

Published

Photographische Rundschau und photographisches Centralblatt, 1906, full-page halftone, Noire et Rose (n.e. Gummidr.), Georges Grimprel, Paris, unpaginated, between pp. 186-87.