JEANLOUP SIEFF 1933-2000 - Lot 38

JEANLOUP SIEFF 1933-2000 Aldous Huxley, Hollywood, 1962. Photograph. Posterior silver print, stamped by the author and titled and dated on the back. Image: 29.7 x 19.8 cm; sheet: 39.7 x 29.7 cm "I had suggested to the art director of Harper's Bazaar that we go to Hollywood to shoot fashion, more to discover the people and myths there than for the models' dresses! I had the opportunity to photograph Alfred Hitchcok, Billy Wilder, old producers, kidney-shaped swimming pools... and Aldous Huxley, who was a little reluctant to have to pose with a model. I had to take them for a walk in a garden to calm him down. It was during this tense wandering that I painted this portrait. He died shortly afterwards, his face already looking like a death mask, but when the photos were finished, he was charming and funny, probably happy to be done with me!" Jeanloup Sieff