About This Image

Lucien Clergue (French, 1934-2014) La Femme, la Mer et des Sables (9 works), 1972. Gelatin silver prints 9-5/8 x 9-1/4 inches (24.5 x 23.5 cm) and smaller (images/sheets). Signed and editioned 75 in pencil on the accompanying booklet. Number 75 from the edition of 200.

Each a neutral toned print on glossy, double weight paper, trimmed to edges. A smaller image (5-1/4 x 5 inches) tipped to accompanying booklet cover. Extremely minor surface flaws here and there across the group, typical of this glossy surface and barely visible under closest inspection. In very good/excellent condition overall. Booklet with torn and yellowed glassine protective cover; otherwise in very good condition.

French photographer Lucien Clergue’s work is deeply rooted in his home city of Arles, where he was born on August 14, 1934. Picking up a camera as a young man in post-war Provence, he took a different route than other artists of his generation, turning his lens on the rubble and destruction of France after the war, often shooting in low-lit, decimated homes.

In addition to his scenes of the city, Clergue’s oeuvre includes incisive images of peers such as Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and other iconic figures in the south of France. It is his faceless female nudes, however—from the subtle eroticism of his beach-side scenes to the chic geometries of his black-and-white “Nu Zebre” series—that are the artist’s signature work.

He died on November 15, 2014, Nîmes, France, after a long illness.

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