Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
BRASSAÏ.
The Artists of My Life.

Illustrated with full-page reproductions of Brassaï's photographs of artists at work. 4to, pictorial paper over silver-stamped cloth, with a special clasped presentation folder at the front housing the photogravure. deluxe edition from witkin-berley, one of 150 copies signed and numbered by brassaï, issued with a photogravure.
New York: Viking Press, (1982)

Additional Details

with--Henri Matisse drawing from the nude. Hand-pulled dust-grained photogravure, 8 1/4x6 1/4 inches (21x15.9 cm.), with Brassaï's signature, in ink, and the edition notation 146/150, on recto. 1939; printed 1982.
From the Estate of Lee Witkin; by descent to the present owner.