Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1979 - Lot 38

Serge Gainsbourg, circa 1979 Black-and-white digital print Dimensions: 20.6 x 28.4 cm Note: This stage portrait captures Serge Gainsbourg in a posture that has become emblematic: cigarette to the lips, silhouette leaning towards the microphone, dense, nocturnal atmosphere. The tight framing, sharp contrast and presence of smoke give the image a strong dramatic intensity, perfectly in tune with the artist's provocative, disillusioned aesthetic of the late 1970s. This period corresponds to the public affirmation of the Gainsbourg persona - provocative, fragile and masterfully theatrical - whose iconography remains particularly sought-after. The image is in the tradition of the stage and concert portraits that have largely contributed to shaping the artist's visual myth. This print is of undoubted iconographic interest, appreciated by collectors of music photography and objects linked to French culture in the 1970s.