Sep 21, 2021 - Sale 2579

Sale 2579 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 4,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

BRASSAÏ (1899-1984)


Matisse, Sketching.
Silver print, the image measuring 292.1228.6 mm; 11 1/2x9 inches. 1944.

Hommage. Dessins de Matisse. With text by André Rouveyre and Paul Éluard and a frontispiece by Leonor Fini. Illustrated with reproductions of Matisse's drawings. Small folio, printed green wrappers; contents loose as issued. ONE OF 1000 COPIES ISSUED WITH AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH OF MATISSE.

(Monaco): Hommage, 1944.

Portraits of artists by Brassaï were included in a group exhibition entitled "Arists by Artists -- Photographs" at Zabriskie Gallery, New York, December 2-January 3, 1976.