Lot 135
  • 135

Brassaï

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Brassaï
  • L’Entrée du Bal Tabarin, 1930-1932
  • photograph
Vintage silver print. Matted and framed.

Provenance

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Literature

Brassaï, Voluptés de Paris, Paris, Paris-Publications, 1934, ill. p.47
Tom Maloney, US Camera, New York, U.S. Camera Publishing, 1953, ill. p.15
Ludvik Soucek, Brassaï, Prague, Státní Nakladatelství Krásné Literatury, 1962, ill. p.20
Ann W. Tucker, Brassaï : The Eye of Paris, exhib. cat., Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, ill. p.194
Collection de photographies du Musée national d'art moderne. Photographies 1905-1948, Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1996, ill. p.82

Condition

This silver print is in overall excellent condition. All four corners slightly worn. A tiny handling mark near the right edge visible under raking light only. Consistent with a press print and its use.
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Catalogue Note

© Estate Brassaï - RMN-Grand Palais