About This Image

Signed, titled and dated (1948) in pencil on the verso by the photographer. Initialed and dated (48) in pencil on verso.

Extremely rare in this larger size and as a vintage or near vintage print. Likely to be a print from 1948-1950. Passes black light test and does not glow. Boubat's early vintage prints are among the rarest of this generation of French photographers.

See: Hall, Edouard Boubat, Photography, Vol.II, No.5, May, 1956, pp.32-37, reproduced on p.33 as "Sunday Outing"; Paris, Visages-Paysages (Paris-Musees 1996), p.33, where it is dated 1948; Boubat and Anhoury, Edward Boubat: The Monograph, p.191.

Provenance: Galerie Baudoin Lebon.

Édouard Boubat (September 13, 1923, Paris, France - June 30, 1999, Paris) was a well known French art photographer. Boubat worked as a photo engraver before he began taking photographs in 1946. He sought to make photographs that were a celebration of life. He worked as a freelance photojournalist on contract to the magazine "Réalités" in the 1950s and 1960s and traveled widely throughout his career. His work in the collections of numerous museums and institutions around the word.

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