02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #75

Edouard Boubat, (1923 - 1999)

Lella, Bretagne, c. 1970

Gelatin silver print on Agfa paper

 37.4 x 25.8 cm (40.5 x 30.4 cm)

Private collection

After the World War II, the time Boubat shared with his sister and her friends, was the happiest for him, marked by the meeting of Lella who would become his friend, his model and, in 1947, his wife.

In this work, the young woman with dark hair, bust forward like the bow of a ship, seems to contemplate the future. This woman is Lella. With her and a friend, Séguis, Edouard Boubat goes on vacation. They share their common passion for art, they love each other.

"Lella was inseparable from her friend Seguis The freshness of Edouard Boubat's gaze, dazzled by this bewitching double femininity was a great moment in photography." Agathe Gaillard

The transparency of the blouse, in this work, allowing one to discover the bare neck and the black bra, allows Boubat to play effects of matter and subtle gradations of whites and grays. More on this work

Some consider this photo the masterpiece of Edouard Boubat. 

Édouard Boubat (13 September, 1923–died Paris 30 June 1999) was a French photojournalist and art photographer.

Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts at the École Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a photographer. In 1943 he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced labour of French people in Nazi Germany. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the Kodak Prize the following year. He travelled the world for the French magazine Réalités, and later worked as a freelance photographer. French poet Jacques Prévert called him a "peace correspondent" as he was a humanist, apolitical and photographed uplifting subjects. His son Bernard Boubat is also a photographer. More on Édouard Boubat

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