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Provenance: Staley-Wise Gallery, New York;
acquired 1996.
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Literature: American Vogue, September 15, 1939;
'C'était hier', French Vogue, December 1939, pp. 34-35;
Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Company Inc., 1979, p. 65;
Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, Thames and Hudson, 1979, p. 46;
Lawford, Horst: His Work and His World, Viking, 1984, p. 184; Horst Photographs 1931-1968, Idea Books Edizioni, 1985, unpaginated;
Harrison and Bailey, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. no. 71;
Kazmaier, Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, Thames and Hudson, 1991, pl. 8;
Fraser, On The Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue, Random House, 1992, p. 25;
Koetzle, Photo Icons: Volume 2, Taschen, 2002, pp. 38-45;
Angeletti and Oliva, In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine, Rizzoli, 2006, p. 18.
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Notes: It was created by emotion.... It was the last photo I took in Paris before the war. I left the studio at 4.00 a.m., went back to the house, picked up my bags and caught the 7.00 a.m. train to Le Havre to board the Normandie.... The photograph is peculiar -- for me. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind.
Horst
