Lot 31
  • 31

Bill Brandt

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Bill Brandt
  • 'London', 1956
  • Gelatin silver print
Silver print, printed 1970, flush-mounted to card. Signed in black felt tip pen on the card.

Provenance

Deborah Bell, New York

Literature

Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt, New York, 1985, ill. p. 105; 
Doris C. O'Neil, ed., Eisenstaedt: Remembrances, Boston, 1995, ill. pp. 116-17; 
Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection, Boston, 1999, ill. p. 15; 
Richard Lacayo and George Russell, Eyewitness: 150 Years of Photojournalism, New York, 1990, ill. p. 153; 
John Loengard, ed., LIFE Faces, New York, 1991, ill. pp. 12-13

Condition

This print is in overall good to very good condition. With light retouching and minor scratches across the print, only visible in raking light. With very slightly softened corners.
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