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BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)
Vastérival Beach, Normandy, 1954
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on board, printed 1969
variously numbered in pencil (flush mount, verso)
image/sheet/flush mount: 24 1/4 x 20 5/8 in. (61.5 x 52.3 cm.)

Provenance
Acquired from the artist, 1969.
Literature
Bill Brandt, Perspective of Nudes, Amphoto, New York, 1961, pl. 45.
Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light, Da Capo Press, New York, 1977, pl. 137.
Michael Hiley, Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980, The Gordon Fraser Gallery Limited, London, 1980, pl. 34.
Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1999, p. 315.
Exhibition catalogue, Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013, p. 178.
Exhibited
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Bill Brandt, September 15–November 30, 1969, and thereafter to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1970.
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