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MAURICE TABARD (French, 1897-1984) JARDIN DES MODES

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MAURICE TABARD (French, 1897-1984) JARDIN DES MODES
MAURICE TABARD (French, 1897-1984) JARDIN DES MODES "Jardin des Modes - Negatif - 1930" inscribed in black ink above image on mount recto "MAURICE TABARD, 38, RUE FALGUIÈRE, PARIS XV" stamped on verso of print "MAURICE TABARD" stamped in blue ink on verso of mount vintage gelatin silver print (negative) mounted on paper 8 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (22.5 x 16.8 cm) mount: 10 7/8 x 8 1/2 in. (27.6 x 21.6 cm) 1930 PROVENANCE Christie's NEW YORK, October 3, 1996, Sale Number 8482, Lot 332 Private Collection, NEW YORK After Tabard failed his exam at the conservatory and effectively ended his plans for a career as a violinist, his father took him to America in 1918, where he studied at the New York Institute of Photography. He began to work at the Studio Barlach to open a new branch in Baltimore in 1922. Tabard returned to Paris in 1928, where the surrealist Philippe Soupault put him in touch with Lucien Vogel, the director of the magazine JARDIN DES MODES, and his first client in Paris. He worked as a freelancer providing portraits, advertising, and fashion photography for several other magazines such as ART ET DÉCORATION, VU, and BIFUR. He participated in the important exhibition Film und Foto in Stuttgart in 1929 and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie de la Pléiade in Paris in 1933. In 1930 and 1931, he worked in the Deberny-Peignot studio, where he met Roger Parry and Eméric Féher. Throughout the thirties he experimented with double exposures, solarization, and negative printing. He wrote about and taught photography, becoming known as a theoretician, especially on the geometric composition of photographs. During the early years of the war, he ran the MARIE CLAIRE studio in Lyon before joining the film service of the French Army in Africa. Most of his negatives were destroyed during the Occupation. After the War, Alexey Brodovitch called on Tabard to return to New York to work for HARPER'S BAZAAR. Throughout the fifties, he divided his time between Paris and New York, and in 1960 definitively settled in Paris, where he continued to work for a variety of magazines. This negative print was most likely made as an illustration for JARDIN DES MODES.
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