Bill Brandt

East Sussex Coast

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December 21, 07:16 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

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Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco, CA

Bill Brandt

1904 - 1983

East Sussex Coast

gelatin silver print, numbered '89' in ink in the margin, 1958, printed no later than 1961

image: 9 ¼ by 7 ¾ in. (23.5 by 19.7 cm.)

Originally in the collection of The Bodley Head, publisher of Perspective of Nudes

Acquired from England and Company, London, 2017

Bill Brandt, Perspective of Nudes (London, 1961), pl. 89 (this print)

Michael Hiley, Photographs by Bill Brandt (Boston, 1980), pl. 48

Sarah Hermanson Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light (The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), p. 174

"This photograph exemplifies Brandt’s groundbreaking approach to the nude; abstraction, distortion and texture merge into a photograph that is both real and imaginary. Along with Stieglitz, Weston, Drtikol and a very few other 20^th century photographers, Brandt is among the great innovators in photography’s conception of the nude." - Paul Hertzmann and Susan Herzig

Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., presents nineteenth- and twentieth-century photographs with a particular focus on American & European modernism, PhotoSecession, f/64, post-World War II, and the American West.