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In February 2025, the French Post Office honored both Juliette Gréco and Erwin Blumenfeld by issuing a stamp bearing the image of Juliette Gréco (1927-2020), featuring one of his portraits of the French singer. The woman nicknamed La Muse of Saint-Germain-des-Près poses for Blumenfeld in New York in the early 1950s, to promote one of her albums edited by Colombia Records. This emblematic figure of French chanson can be recognized by her jet-black hair and bangs, dressed in her “working black” to accentuate the softness of her face, hands in evidence on a table – highlighting the expressive tools she used extensively to accompany her voice.
This portrait was the choice of Julie-Amour Rossini, Juliette Gréco’s granddaughter. It would have pleased Erwin Blumenfeld, himself an avid stamp collector.

We show here some outtakes from the sitting.