Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 319

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?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)
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WITH--Henri Matisse drawing from the nude. Hand-pulled dust-grained photogravure, the image mesauring 8 1/4x6 1/4 inches (21x15.9 cm.), the sheet 10 1/2x7 3/4 inches (26.7x19.7 cm.), with Brassaï's signature, in ink, and the edition notation 150/150, on recto. 1939; printed 1982.

From the Estate of Lee Witkin; by descent to the Present Owner.

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