Vintage Erpé of Nice real photo postcard portrait of the legendary chanteuse, signed and inscribed in blue ink across the lower image: "Pour Mademoiselle / Hélène de Poutiloff / en toute cordialité / Edith Piaf." With scalloped edges. Fine. 3.5 x 5.5 inches; 9 x 13.7 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Studio Erpé was a photographic studio based in Nice, active primarily between the 1940s and 1970s. It specialized in photographing theatrical scenes and portraits of artists. Several of its works are held at the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (Historical Library of the City of Paris), including stage photographs dating from 1960 and portraits of actors and singers taken between 1940 and 1960.
Vintage Erpé of Nice real photo postcard portrait of the legendary chanteuse, signed and inscribed in blue ink across the lower image: "Pour Mademoiselle / Hélène de Poutiloff / en toute cordialité / Edith Piaf." With scalloped edges. Fine. 3.5 x 5.5 inches; 9 x 13.7 cm. From the autograph collection of Hélène de Poutiloff, who was active in the French Resistance before emigrating to the US in 1953.
Studio Erpé was a photographic studio based in Nice, active primarily between the 1940s and 1970s. It specialized in photographing theatrical scenes and portraits of artists. Several of its works are held at the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris (Historical Library of the City of Paris), including stage photographs dating from 1960 and portraits of actors and singers taken between 1940 and 1960.