Édouard Boubat
(1923-1999)
La Petite Fille aux Feuilles Mortes [The Little Girl with Autumn Leaves],
1946
Gelatin silver print, printed 1980s
Signed in ink in the margin; signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso
Image size: 13 x 9 1/2 inches
Paper size: 16 x 12 inches
Mat size: 20 x 16 inches
Provenance: Photogenesis, Sante Fe, New Mexico, 2007; Private Collection, NY
Condition: Overall Excellent; cockling in upper and lower margins; cockling in the lower margin does not affect the image; upper right corner creased, not affecting the image
Retail: $5500-$6500
3/24: This print is being offered far below cost as part of an estate sale.
A print of this image was included in Edward Steichen’s historic “Family of Man” exhibition at MoMA.
BIO:
Boubat was born in Montmartre, Paris. He studied typography and graphic arts for
the Ecole Estienne and worked for a printing company before becoming a
photographer. In 1943 he was subjected to service du travail obligatoire, forced
labour of French people in Nazi Germany, and witnessed the horrors of World War
II. He took his first photograph after the war in 1946 and was awarded the
Kodak Prize the following year. He travelled the world for the French magazine
Realities, where his colleague was Jean Philippe Charbonnier, later worked as a
freelance photographer. French poet Jacques Prevert called him a "peace
correspondent" as he was humanist, apolitical and photographed uplifting
subjects. -- wikipedia
Awards & Recognitions
1947 – Receives the very
first Kodak Prize
1977 – His book La
Survivance receives the Grand Prix d’Arles
1984 – Grand Prix National de
la Photographie
1988 – Hasselblad Foundation
Prize
1997 – Named
a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Publications (Partial)
1974 – La Photographie by
Edouard Boubat
1979 – Boubat par Boubat by
Edouard Boubat
1979 – L’ombre de ‘autre by
Edouard Boubat
1980 – Preferees by Edouard
Boubat
1982 – Jardins et squares by
Edouard Boubat
1988 – Photopoche n°32,
CNP
1988 – Édouard Boubat
(Centre National De La Photographie, 1988)
1989 – Les Boubat de
Boubat, Belfond
1990 – Le Paris de
Boubat with a text by François Cavanna, Paris Audiovisuel
1990 – Intimacies by Edouard
Boubat
1991 – Mes chers enfants by
Edouard Boubat
1994 – Comme avec une femme by
Edouard Boubat
1995 – Canets d’Amerique by
Edouard Boubat
1996 – Donne-moi quelque
chose qui ne meure pas by Edouard Boubat
1998 – La Bible de Boubat,
En Vues Éditions
1998 – Reprint
of Lella, Paris Audiovisuel-MEP
2002 – Édouard
Boubat, Album from Reporter Sans Frontières
2004 – Édouard Boubat, La
Martinière Éditions, publication overseen by Bernard Boubat, winner
the Prix Bernier for best art book from the Academie des Beaux-Arts de
l’Institut de France
2015 – Méditerranée with a text by Édouard Boubat, Filigranes Éditions