COLETTE - REUTLINGER (Léopold-Émile). "Colette"... - Lot 143 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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COLETTE - REUTLINGER (Léopold-Émile). "Colette"... - Lot 143 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
COLETTE - REUTLINGER (Léopold-Émile). "Colette" (1906). Reunion of 2 old photographs representing Colette in light clothing. Size: 23,5 x 29,5 cm and 29,5 x 23,5 cm. Colette, very sporty, practises with assiduity the physical culture and the gymnastics. She takes great pride in her beautiful and well-built body. In her eyes, the swimsuit is an unsightly fabric that constrains her movements and prevents her from perfecting her gestures, thus annihilating all her mime work. "I want to dance naked if the swimsuit hinders me and humiliates my plasticity. Colette did not consider her nudity as degrading or vicious, quite the contrary. In her conception of the music hall, the actress's body, while certainly sensual, becomes asexual: it is above all a body sculpted by sports practice. Moreover, later on, she would deny having been truly "naked": it is true that only her breast was offered to the viewer. Léopold-Emile Reutlinger (1863-1937) was a French photographer. He produced a large number of photographic portraits, including those of Mata Hari, Colette and Sarah Bernhardt.
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