Opening: $150 Hammer Price: $150 SOLD Skylight Gallery 13 September 2001

Vintage gelatin-silver with period overpainting, ca. 1939. Dimensions 7 x 5 inches (17x13 cm). Backstamp for Le Petit Parisien and hand notation "Simone Gilbert, qui tua sa voisine Mme Sontag, condamnnée à 5 ans de travaux forcés... 5/7/39".   ( Inventory# gb58.c )

Created for use in a somewhat lurid publication "Le Petit Parisien" during the 1930s, images such as this reflect popular fascination with criminality and its victims.

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