Photographs
Photographs
Brassaï
'La rue de Rivoli sous la pluie'
Lot Closed
April 13, 06:31 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Brassaï
1899 – 1984
'La rue de Rivoli sous la pluie'
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in ink and pencil, and with the photographer's '81, Rue du Faubourg St-Jacques, Paris XIV, Téléph. Port-Royal 23-41,' '81, Faubourg St-Jacques, Paris 14eme, Tél. 707.23.41,' and 'Tirage de l'Auteur' stamps on the reverse, 1937
image: 8 ⅞ by 6 ¾ in. (22.5 by 17.1 cm.)
Sotheby’s New York, 21 October 1981, Sale 4706, Lot 29
Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie, eds., Brassaï: The Monograph (Boston, 2000), p. 265 (alternate cropping)