Details
PHILIPPE HALSMAN (1906-1979)
Dalí Atomicus, 1948
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed, titled, dated [with print date] in pencil with copyright credit stamp (verso); credited, titled, dated on affixed museum and Sir Elton John Photography collection label (frame backing board)
image: 14 1/4 x 18 3/8 in. (36.1 x 46.6 cm.)
sheet: 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in. (40 x 50.1 cm.)
Provenance
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Philippe Halsman and Herb Lubalin, Halsman Sight and Insight, Doubleday, Garden City, 1972, p. 176-177.
Philippe Halsman and Yvonne Halsman, Halsman at Work: Philippe Halsman and Yvonne Halsman, Abrams, New York, 1989, p. 85.
Exhibition catalogue, Mary Panzer et al., Philippe Halsman : A Retrospective : Photographs from the Halsman Family Collection, Little, Brown, Boston, 1998, n.p.
Dealer catalogue, Phillippe Halsman, Halsman/Dali, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, 2004, pl. 16.
Exhibited
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Celebrity Portraits from the Sir Elton John Collection, November 4, 2000– January 28, 2001.
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