May 16, 2024 - Sale 2669

Sale 2669 - Lot 256

Price Realized: $ 23,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995)
Children at a Puppet Theater, Paris. Silver print, the image measuring 21⅝x14⅜ inches (54.9x36.5 cm.), with Eisenstaedt's signature and edition notation 163/250 in ink on recto, and his credit, title, negative and print dates, and the Time Inc. copyright in pencil on verso. 1963; printed 1991

This image of children watching the story of "Saint George and the Dragon" at an outdoor puppet theater in Paris, 1963 was published in LIFE magazine.