Surrealist Composition [Andrée Lorain in an Elsa Schiaparelli Hat]
Smoking
Untitled [Basket with Cabbages, San Francisco Farmer’s Market]
San Francisco Waterfront
Calaveras [The Original Big Tree]
Aqueduct Race Track (Veteran at the Betting Parlor)
Aqueduct Race Track [Jockey on Horseback]
Untitled [Padlock and Hasp, Mendocino City]
Place de l’Opera
Max Ernst [1891-1976]
Elbow
Rue de la Genesie [Portrait of Natalia LL]
Rose, Carmel
Portrait of Elise Cavanna
The Woman’s Dance, Walpi
Untitled Photogram
Plaster Wall, Folsom, California
Star in the Palm on My Hand
Geothermal Springs / Hot Springs Mountains [Nevada]
Granary Door, Dogon, French Sudan
Union Square
Claire Falkenstein (at left) with her Paintings
Buchanan Street, San Francisco
Halloween Beards
Edward Borein [1872-1945]
Arkansas Family. Seven Months in California. Washing Dishes
Untitled [Trousers on a Window Sill]
Norman Rockwell [1894-1978]
Rock and Sea, No. 1
Paussus
Aqueduct Race Track Opening Day [Placing a Bet]
Selling the News
Untitled [My Studio in the Winter]
Squash
Christ (Detail), January 1987
Portrait of Lejaren à Hiller
Self-portrait with sunflower Seeds
P.G. & E. Station, San Francisco
Untitled Photogram
Portrait of Emily [Ellias] Holding a Rose

Horst Horst

· Surrealist Composition [Andrée Lorain in an Elsa Schiaparelli Hat] · Vintage silver print · 1938

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