May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 16,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
BRASSAÏ (1899-1984)
Portfolio complete with 10 photographs featuring Brassai's iconic Parisian images. Silver prints, approximately 12x9 inches (30.5x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with the Witkin-Berley/Brassaï portfolio label indicating the print and portfolio number, in ink, on mount verso. Tall folio, stamped black folding case and matching slipcase; signed, dated and numbered, in ink, on the colophon; contents loose as issued. one of 50 numbered copies. 1932-1951; printed 1973

Additional Details

'''Bijou' of Montmartre," 1932 "Bal Musette," 1932 "Staircase in Montmartre," 1932 "Girl Playing Snooker, Montmartre," 1933 "Avenue de L'Observatoire," 1934 Portrait of Picasso with Stove," 1939 "Market Porter, Les Halles," 1939 "Matisse with his Model," 1939 "Gala Soirée at Maxim's," 1949 "Hospice de Beaune," 1951.
From the Witkin Gallery, New York; to the present owner circa 1980.