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BRASSAÏ (1899–1984)

Le Presentation, Chez Suzy, Quartier Saint-Germain-Des-Près,1932

    Price Realised USD 12,600
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    BRASSAÏ (1899–1984)

    Le Presentation, Chez Suzy, Quartier Saint-Germain-Des-Près,1932

    Price Realised USD 12,600
    Price Realised USD 12,600
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    BRASSAÏ (1899–1984)
    Le Presentation, Chez Suzy, Quartier Saint-Germain-Des-Près,1932
    ferrotyped gelatin silver print, printed 1940s
    signed, titled and dated in pencil, with photographer's copyright credit stamp and Metropolitan Museum of Art deaccession stamp (verso)
    image/sheet: 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.1 x 22.5 cm.)
    Provenance
    The Artist;
    Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund, 1980.
    Literature
    Brassai, Brassai: The Secret Paris of the 30s, Pantheon Books, New York, 1976, pl. 363.
    Anne Wilkes Tucker, Brassai: The Eye of Paris, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1999, pl. 42.
    Sylvie Aubenas and Quentin Bajac (eds), Brassai: Paris Nocturne, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2013, pl. 121.
    Exhibited
    New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs, February 26, 1982–May 1, 1982, and thereafter to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Dallas Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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