Thursday, July 6, 2023

Portraits by André Ostier

André Ostier worked in photojournalism and fashion photography, but he is best known for his portraits of artists. He died in 1994.


André Ostier included a self-portrait in this 1963 shot of Marc Chagall in a Paris bar.




Pablo Picasso by André Ostier, 1948




Andy Warhol by André Ostier, 1982




Henri Matisse by André Ostier, 1941




David Hockney by André Ostier, 1975




Yves Saint-Laurent by André Ostier, Maison Christian Dior, Paris, 1959




Leonor Fini by André Ostier, Venice, 1951




Pierre Bonnard by André Ostier, 1941




Francis Bacon at the Café de Flore in Paris, 1982. A wonderful portrait by André Ostier.




Aristide Maillol by André Ostier, 1941




Christian Dior by André Ostier, 1950





Gertrude Stein by André Ostier, rue Christine, vers 1945




Here's André Ostier himself, by an unknown photographer, Spring 1957.


In 1940 Virgil Thomson wrote a Canon With Cadenza, entitled "Portrait of André Ostier". The two obviously hung out together in Paris before the war, perhaps at Gertrude Stein's place. I haven't been able to track down a portrait of Thomson by Ostier, but here's Ostier by Thomson:

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