Feb 14, 2017 - Sale 2436

Sale 2436 - Lot 86

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ROBERT DOISNEAU (1912-1994)
Un Regard Oblique [A Sideways Glance]. Oversized silver print, the image measuring 13 1/4x14 7/8 inches (33.7x37.8 cm.), the sheet 15 3/4x19 3/4 inches (40.2x50.2 cm.), with Doisneau's signature, in ink, on recto, and his initials and title, in ink, on verso. 1948; printed 1980

Additional Details

From Henry Feldstein, Forest Hills, New York; to a Private Collector, in 2002.


This iconic image was made on assignment for LIFE magazine. Doisneau apparently hid behind an antique chair at a Parisian art gallery. He arranged his Rolliflex at an angle capturing furtive male admirers gazing at the painted female nude figure.