Lisette Model

(American/Austrian, 1901–1983)

Lisette Model was an Austrian-born American photographer whose work portrayed city life. By getting up close to her human subjects, Model conveyed the sense of a chance event. “The snapshooter’s pictures have an apparent disorder and imperfection, which is exactly their appeal and their style,” she once explained. Born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern on November 10, 1901 in Vienna, Austria, she studied music under the avant-garde composer Arnold Schoenberg as a young woman. Moving to Paris in 1924, she met the Russian painter Evsa Model, whom she married and gaine her surname. By 1933, Model had given up music to pursue visual art, attending the painting courses of André Lhote, and basic instructions on photography from her younger sister Olga. After emigrating to New York with her husband in 1937, Model began working as a photographer for Harper’s Bazaar, whose editor at the time was the esteemed Alexey Brodovitch. Along with her own career, Model also taught photographer, some of her students included Diane Arbus and Larry Fink. The artist died on March 30, 1983 in New York, NY. Today, her works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.

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Lisette Model (462 results)
Blind Man, Paris, 1937

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Blind Man, Paris, 1937

Sale Date: April 6, 2018

Auction Closed

Lisette Model: Twelve Photographs, 1976

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Lisette Model: Twelve Photographs, 1976

Sale Date: April 6, 2018

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Gamblers, French Riviera, 1937

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Gamblers, French Riviera, 1937

Sale Date: April 6, 2018

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Teenage Love, 1942

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Teenage Love, 1942

Sale Date: March 9, 2018

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Woman, Lower East Side, New York, 1942, 1942

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Woman, Lower East Side, New York, 1942, 1942

Sale Date: December 7, 2017

Auction Closed

Sammy's Bar at the Bowery, 1940

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Sammy's Bar at the Bowery, 1940

Sale Date: October 19, 2017

Auction Closed

Reflections, NYC, Rockefeller Center, 1939–1945

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Reflections, NYC, Rockefeller Center, 1939–1945

Sale Date: March 21, 2017

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Reflections, NYC, Rockefeller center, 1939–1945

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Reflections, NYC, Rockefeller center, 1939–1945

Sale Date: February 22, 2017

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Woman in Veil, San Francisco, 1947

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Woman in Veil, San Francisco, 1947

Sale Date: February 14, 2017

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Sailor and Girl, 1940

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Sailor and Girl, 1940

Sale Date: November 22, 2016

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Sammy's Bar at the Bowery, 1940

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Sammy's Bar at the Bowery, 1940

Sale Date: October 25, 2016

Auction Closed

Sailor and Girl, 1940

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Sailor and Girl, 1940

Sale Date: October 27, 2016

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Woman with Veil, San Francisco, 1949

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Woman with Veil, San Francisco, 1949

Sale Date: October 5, 2016

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Bather, standing, Coney Island, New York, 1942

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Bather, standing, Coney Island, New York, 1942

Sale Date: June 1, 2016

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Beggar, Paris, 1937

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Beggar, Paris, 1937

Sale Date: April 4, 2016

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SELECTED IMAGES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE, 1942

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SELECTED IMAGES OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE, 1942

Sale Date: October 7, 2015

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Sailor and Girl, 1940

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Sailor and Girl, 1940

Sale Date: August 25, 2015

Auction Closed

Untitled, 1942

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Untitled, 1942

Sale Date: July 11, 2015

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Reflections, NYC, Rockefeller Center, 1939–1945

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Reflections, NYC, Rockefeller Center, 1939–1945

Sale Date: June 16, 2015

Auction Closed

Window Reflections, Fifth Avenue, 1940

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Window Reflections, Fifth Avenue, 1940

Sale Date: May 19, 2015

Auction Closed

Blind Man, Paris, 1937

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Blind Man, Paris, 1937

Sale Date: March 6, 2015

Auction Closed

Circus man, Nice, 1933–1938

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Circus man, Nice, 1933–1938

Sale Date: November 28, 2014

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Ella Fitzgerald, 1954

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Ella Fitzgerald, 1954

Sale Date: November 16, 2014

Auction Closed

Coney Island Bather, New York, 1939–1941

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Coney Island Bather, New York, 1939–1941

Sale Date: November 14, 2014

Auction Closed

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