Lot 78
  • 78

Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
  • 'LA PLUIE' (RUE DE RIVOLI, PARIS)
  • Ferrotyped gelatin silver print
  • 9 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches
ferrotyped, title in pencil and the photographer's '81 Rue du Faub. St. Jacques, Paris XIV' studio stamp on the reverse, 1937

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York, 1999

Literature

Anne Wilkes Tucker, Brassaï: The Eye of Paris (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1998), pl. 117

Brassaï (The Museum of Modern Art, 1968), p. 60

Brassaï (Paris: Centre Nationale de la Photographie, 1987), pl. 1

Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie, eds., Brassaï: The Monograph (Boston, 2000), p. 265 (variant)

Condition

This early ferrotyped print exhibits a range of tones, from white to black with broad array of gray. It is on medium-weight paper and is in generally good condition. The edges are rubbed, and the corners are bumped. There are tiny emulsion losses at the edges and corners. When examined in raking light, the following are visible: some of the faint lines that are characteristic of ferrotyped prints; fingerprints, light silvering, and several handling creases that do not break the emulsion in the lower portion of the print. When examined with ultraviolet light, this print does not appear to fluoresce.
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Catalogue Note

“ . . . you could photograph the street lamps themselves from above and sheltered by their own shades, they left only a bright circle on the ground.  Or else you could take snaps on damp evenings, or even during rain, when light is diffused by vapour and strange reflections sparkle on the wet pavements.”

Brassaï, 1949