COLETTE, Boris LIPNITZKI
Photographie de Colette écrivant à son bureau dédicacée à "Vava" Hilda Gélis-Didot
Paris s. d. [ca 1950]|13.80 x 8.80 cm|une photographie
Original albumen print portrait of Colette writing at her desk in her Palais Royal apartment. Photographer's blind stamp in the lower left margin, Lipnitzki studio stamp on the verso.
Humorously inscribed by Colette on the right side of the photograph: "For Vava! Do I look like I'm writing? Of course not! I'm just pretending" ("Pour Vava ! J'ai l'air d'écrire ? Pensez-vous ! Je fais semblant."); she chose to put her signature on the photograph itself, on the very paper leaves she 'prentends' to be writing on.
"Vava" is the nickname of Hilda Gélis-Didot, Colette's neighbor at the Palais-Royal. She is related to the Didots, a great family of printers, and was the niece of Madame Gaston Fournier.
Humorously inscribed by Colette on the right side of the photograph: "For Vava! Do I look like I'm writing? Of course not! I'm just pretending" ("Pour Vava ! J'ai l'air d'écrire ? Pensez-vous ! Je fais semblant."); she chose to put her signature on the photograph itself, on the very paper leaves she 'prentends' to be writing on.
"Vava" is the nickname of Hilda Gélis-Didot, Colette's neighbor at the Palais-Royal. She is related to the Didots, a great family of printers, and was the niece of Madame Gaston Fournier.
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