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)
Sailor and Girl and the Aperture Monograph..., 1979

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Sailor and Girl and the Aperture Monograph..., 1979

Sale Date: November 21, 2014

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Sammy's Bar at the Bowery, New York, 1940–1944

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Sammy's Bar at the Bowery, New York, 1940–1944

Sale Date: November 21, 2014

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Fashion show, Hôtel Pierre, New York City, 1946

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Fashion show, Hôtel Pierre, New York City, 1946

Sale Date: November 14, 2014

Auction Closed

Cafe Metropole, New York City, 1946

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Cafe Metropole, New York City, 1946

Sale Date: November 14, 2014

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Sailor and Girl, Signed, 1940–1949

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Sailor and Girl, Signed, 1940–1949

Sale Date: October 31, 2014

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Sailor and girl, 1940

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Sailor and girl, 1940

Sale Date: October 16, 2014

Auction Closed

Self-Portrait, 1970

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Self-Portrait, 1970

Sale Date: August 28, 2014

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Blind Man, Paris, 1937

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Blind Man, Paris, 1937

Sale Date: June 6, 2014

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Woman with veil, San Francisco, 1949

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Woman with veil, San Francisco, 1949

Sale Date: May 20, 2014

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Newspaper Man, Paris (from Twelve Photographs), 1938

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Newspaper Man, Paris (from Twelve Photographs), 1938

Sale Date: April 5, 2014

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Sailor and Girl, 1940

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Sailor and Girl, 1940

Sale Date: April 5, 2014

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Sailor and girl, 1940

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Sailor and girl, 1940

Sale Date: December 15, 2013

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Promenade des Anglais, Nice (woman in a..., 1938

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Promenade des Anglais, Nice (woman in a..., 1938

Sale Date: December 12, 2013

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Café Métropole. New York, 1946

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Café Métropole. New York, 1946

Sale Date: December 5, 2013

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Fashion Display, Hotel Pierre, New York, 1940–1946

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Fashion Display, Hotel Pierre, New York, 1940–1946

Sale Date: November 27, 2013

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Woman with veil, San Francisco, 1949

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Woman with veil, San Francisco, 1949

Sale Date: October 17, 2013

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Fashion show, Hotel Pierre, NYC, 1946

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Fashion show, Hotel Pierre, NYC, 1946

Sale Date: October 17, 2013

Auction Closed

Sammy's, New York, 1940–1944

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Sammy's, New York, 1940–1944

Sale Date: September 10, 2013

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French Gambler, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 1934

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French Gambler, Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 1934

Sale Date: June 13, 2013

Auction Closed

Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France, 1934

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Promenade des Anglais, Nice, France, 1934

Sale Date: May 18, 2013

Auction Closed

Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 1934

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Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 1934

Sale Date: May 23, 2013

Auction Closed

Sailor and Girl, Sammy's Bar, New York, 1940

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Sailor and Girl, Sammy's Bar, New York, 1940

Sale Date: May 24, 2013

Auction Closed

Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 1937

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Promenade des Anglais, Nice, 1937

Sale Date: May 24, 2013

Auction Closed

Reflections, New York, 1939–1945

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Reflections, New York, 1939–1945

Sale Date: April 3, 2013

Auction Closed

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