Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Lot Closed
October 1, 07:35 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
BILL BRANDT
1904-1983
KISMET AND MIRROR, BELGRAVIA
gelatin silver print, dated in ink, the photographer's credit, copyright, and reproduction rights stamps, and with a PHOTO Researchers, Inc., NYC, label on the reverse, framed, 1953, probably printed in the late 1950s
image: 9⅛ by 7¾ in. (23.2 by 19.7 cm.)
framed: 15 by 15½ in. (38.1 by 39.4 cm.)
Phillips de Pury & Company New York, 26 April 2006, Sale 40106, Lot 114
Cyril Connolly, Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light: A Collection of Photographs from 1931 to the Present (New York, 1966), pl. 77 (reversed)
Cyril Connolly and Mark Haworth-Booth, Bill Brandt: Shadow of Light (New York, 1977), pl. 128 (reversed)
Michael Hiley, Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980 (New York, 1980), pl. 14 (reversed)
The Photography of Bill Brandt (New York, 1999), pl. 216
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), p. 160
PHOTO Researchers, Inc., was founded in 1957 as a Manhattan-based photo agency.