The classic "kiss" left the Paris auction for 155 thousand euros

The famous picture of the famous French photographer Robert Duano "Kiss at the Parisian City Hall", put up on Monday for auction in Paris, was sold for 155 thousand euros. The original picture was put up by the heroine of the photograph of Francoise Borne. The starting price of the photo was 15-20 thousand euros.

The photograph was taken in 1950, when Duano, by order of the American magazine, Life worked on a series of Parisian lovers. The picture shows a kissing in the crowd in the square in front of the metropolitan mayor next to the college in which they studied, the couple in love - Francoise Borne and her friend Jacques Card. The photograph has become a symbol of post -war Paris.

I bought a photo, according to representatives of the Paris Auction House Briest-Poulain-Light Fur, an anonymous Swiss collector, reports the Air Force .

Many believed that the “kiss” was shot spontaneously, but in fact the photograph was staged: Borne and Card agreed to pose to the master.

“I would never dare to shoot people like that,” said Duano in an interview with 1992. “Lovers kissing on the street,“ such couples are rarely “legalized”.

Then the photograph was dusting for a long time in the archive of the agency, with which Duano collaborated, and only after more than 30 years it was noticed by one company for the production of posters. This began the world -famous picture of the picture, which led to the fact that several pairs at once announced that they were depicted in the photo.

After more than 40 years, from that memorable moment near the building of the municipality, Francoise Borne finally met with Robert Duano. She showed him an original imprint on which there is a signature of a photographer and a seal; He sent this picture to her just a few days after he captured a couple.

Francoise has long parted with her friend. Card subsequently began to engage in winemaking. And she got married and now intends to create a film production company with her husband. A similar project requires considerable funds, and that is why Borne decided to sell a memorable picture.