Lot 142
  • 142

Robert Doisneau

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Robert Doisneau
  • Le baiser de l'Hôtel de Ville, Paris, 1950
  • photograph
Silver print, printed probably 1980s. Signed in ink in the margin. On the reverse, initialled, titled and dated. Matted.

Provenance

Stanley Wise Gallery, New York

Literature

Robert Doisneau, Photographs, London, Gordon Fraser, 1980, ill. p. 33
Ned Rifkin, Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, exhib. cat., Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 2000, ill. p. 102
Jean-Claude Gautrand, Robert Doisneau 1912-1994, Cologne, Taschen, 2003, cover and ill. p. 122
Robert Doisneau, Paris, Paris, Flammarion, 2005, ill. p. 89
Hans-Michael Koetzle (ed.), Photo Icons: The Story Behind the Pictures, Cologne, Taschen, 2015, ill. pp. 184-185

Condition

This silver print is in excellent general condition.
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Catalogue Note

© Robert Doisneau