Lot n° 34
Estimation :
80 - 100
EUR
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1975 - Lot 34
Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1975
Black-and-white digital print
Dimensions: 27.5 x 20.5 cm
Note: An emblematic portrait of the Birkin-Gainsbourg couple, captured on set or in the studio, at a pivotal moment in their artistic and media collaboration. The image is distinguished by its formal sobriety: frontal framing, physical proximity, direct gaze towards the lens. It accurately captures the complicity, but also the creative tension, that characterized their relationship.
Jane Birkin appears in a natural, uncluttered attitude, embodying the deceptively simple aesthetic that became her signature, while Serge Gainsbourg adopts a more constructed posture, true to his public persona already firmly established in the mid-1970s. Together, they formed one of the most iconic couples on the European art scene, at the crossroads of music, cinema and popular culture. This print is of undoubted heritage and iconographic interest, powerfully illustrating the public image of a duo that profoundly marked the collective imagination of the 1960s-1970s.
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