A figure study by Vassil Ivanoff (1897 Bulgaria - 1973 Paris), he was a French ceramist and photographer.

After the First World War, he became a teacher and began studying visual arts, painting, drawing and theatrical decoration in Bulgaria. Settled in France in 1922, he exercised, until 1945, several professions: house painter, painter, decorator, fabric painter and art photographer. Around the age of 50 he discovered 'the Art of pottery' a book by the English ceramist William Lee. He then chooses to make it his profession. A prominent figure in the 20th century, he was considered the first
expressionist of ceramics. His unclassifiable sculptures, the result of assemblies of turned and cut pieces, bear witness to their monumental nature of the evolution towards plastic ceramics.

This matte gelatine silver print in overall good condition. Printed ca. 1940's when he worked as an art photographer in Paris.

Print ca. 18 x 13,1 cm

Photographer's stamp on the verso in red ink.