Robert Doisneau

a group of 15 photographs, including 'Le Manége de Monsieur Barre,' 'Un Regard Oblique,' 'La Derniére Valse du 14 Juillet,' 'L'Enfer,' 'La Dame Indignée,' 'Les Enfants de la Place Herbert,' and others, each signed by the photographer in ink in the margin, titled and dated by him in ink on the reverse, 1945-58, printed later (Three Seconds from Eternity, pp. 46, 66, 67, 69, 81, 130, 139, and 143; Doisneau Paris, pp. 189, 267, 363, 490, and 493; Retrospective, contents page and pls. 6, 7, 65, and 67) (15)

The photographs are as follows: Un Regard Oblique, 1948 Les Animaux Supérieurs 1957 Le Manége de Monsieur Barré, 1955 La Derniére valse du 14 Juillet, 1949 Giacometti dans son Atelier, 1957 Les Enfants de la Place Herbert, 1957 Les Glaneurs de Charbon, 1945 Midi a la Fonderie Rudier, December 1949 La Petite Balcon, 1953 Picasso et Francoise Gilot, 1952 La Concierge aux Lunettes, 1945 Le Fox-Terrier des Ponts de Arts, 1958 Ferdand Léger dans ses Ouevres, 1954 L'Enfer, 1952 La Dame Indignée, 1948 These photographs are generally in excellent condition (except for La Dame Indignée, 1948').
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