4 Nude Studies By Julien Mandel, C. 1920. Vintage Silver Gelatin Prints.

4 Vintage silver gelatin prints by Julien MANDEL circa 1920. Very beautiful and rare series of four black and white silver gelatin prints depicting a nude female model in different poses in a studio. The model, with her hair styled in the Art Nouveau fashion, is draped in a transparent fabric and poses against a dark background adorned with a floral motif. - Under a 40x50cm mat - Photo format 16.5 x 22 cm. Julien Mandel is a photographer whose biography is shrouded in mystery…sometimes he was born in 1893 in Poland, exiled to Brazil where he supposedly died in 1961 after his Parisian studio went bankrupt, or else born in 1872 in Alsace and died in 1935 in Paris…It is also rumored that it could be a pseudonym behind which the photographer Walery hid. In any case, Julien Mandel is one of the most famous photographers of female nudes of the early 20th century. Between 1910 and 1930, he produced numerous photographs of female nudes, which were published by the Neue Gesellschaft Photographische, Alfred Noyer, and Les Studios PC Paris. Equally talented in the studio and outdoors—he was one of the instigators of the "New Age Outdoor" movement—he also worked in film. [Link to the website: https://www.lavalisearlesienne.com/product-page/4-etudes-de-nu-julien-mandel-c-1920]