Pamono Lucien Clergue, Female Nude Study, 1968, Photogravure Print

Nude Female Study 1968 by Lucien Clergue A nude models breast protrudes from bubbly water as she poses. Unframed Matted Overall size : 12 x 16″ inches / 30 x 41 cm Image Size: 8.5″ x 11.” inches / 22 x 28 cm Printed 1968 Sheet Fed Photogravure Print Mint condition Certificate of authenticity Lucien Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him. Clergue was from a family of shopkeepers and could not afford to pursue further studies in a college or university school of music, such as a conservatory. In 1949, he learned the basics of photography. Four years later, at a corrida in Arles, he showed his photographs to Spanish painter Pablo Picasso who, though subdued, asked to see more of his work. Within a year and a half, young Clergue worked on his photography with the goal of sending more images to Picasso. During this period, he worked on a series of photographs of travelling entertainers, acrobats and harlequins, the « Saltimbanques ». He also worked on a series whose subject was carrion.