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BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)
Tombstone, Barcelona, c. 1931
gelatin silver print, printed 1969
stamped photographer's 'BILL BRANDT' credit in blue ink, numbered '33' and variously otherwise numbered in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 14 x 12 in. (35.5 x 30.4 cm.)


Provenance
Acquired from the artist, 1969.
Literature
Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light, Da Capo Press, New York, 1977, pl. 61 (as Spanish Tombstone, 1930).
Ian Jeffrey (ed.), Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983, Barbican Art Gallery, 1993, p. 49 (as Death and the Industrialist, Barcelona, 1932).
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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