Molinier, Pierre. (1900-1976): Éperon d'amour [The Love Spur], 1960.

Gelatin silver print. 3-1/2 x 4-7/8 inches (8.9 x 12.4 cm) (image/sheet). Overall good condition, with silver mirroring to edges and darkest shadows, pinholes in the corners, pinpoint dot of retouching to the figure's forehead, minor scattered chipping and bumping to extreme edges and corners of sheet. Sheet is hinged along upper edge of verso to board. Window matted and framed under acrylic to 9 x 10 1/2 inches. Not examined out of frame. Pierre Molinier was a surrealist painter, photographer and 'object maker' who worked alongside the Surrealists, including Andre Breton who organized his only solo show in his lifetime at L'Etoile Scellee (1957). When he was sixty-five years old, Molinier began to work a series of photographs for his private erotic pleasure, a series he continued for eleven years until his death, by his own hand, in 1976. Embodying an androgynous identity (cross-dressing in his wife's lingerie) and through his fetishistic erotic portraiture, he challenged norms of mo