George Platt Lynes 7 Nude Photographs of dancer Francisco Moncion in Lynes' NYC Apartment 1948.
Extraordinary Rare and personal George Platt Lynes nude photographs of NYC Ballet dancer Francisco Moncion in the New York City apartment of Platt Lynes. These are original vintage gelatin silver photographs from Moncion’s personal collection given to him by Platt Lynes, a close friend and professional colleague.
Photograph #1 is referenced in the German publication “George Platt Lynes” - photograph 52 “Interior lit art (Francisco Moncion) Ca. 1948, 24 x 19 cm”. Notice towel in bathroom of Photograph #6 with GPL initials.
George Platt Lynes (1907–1955), was a gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s through the early 1950s. From age eighteen, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when he became acquainted with the salon of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. He began photographing authors like Stein, Jean Cocteau, André Gide, and Colette and soon established himself as one of the premier fashion photographers in the Condé Nast stable, documenting the ballet companies of George Balanchine/Lincoln Kirstein, and pursuing a private obsession with seductive images of young male nudes rarely published in his lifetime.
Francisco Moncion (July 6, 1918 – April 1, 1995) was a charter member of the New York City Ballet. Over the course of his forty year career, choreographers George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins in the New York City Ballet created 22 major roles for Moncion including the Dark Angel in Orpheus, Death in La Valse, Prince Ivan in Firebird, and the Boy in Afternoon of a Faun. He was also a choreographer and a talented painter who exhibited alongside Miro, Picasso and Carrado Cagli.
Moncion modeled with Nicholas Magallanes for the iconic series of nude photos by Platt Lynes of Balanchine’s ballet “Orpheus”, also dated in 1948.
Photographs are in excellent condition except the horizontal image has been lightly creased down the center. This does not show when viewing the image.
Available as a complete set at $5,600.