Lot 34
Lot 34
BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)

Gull’s Nest on Mid-Summer Night, Isle of Skye, 1947

Price Realised USD 9,375
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USD 3,000 - USD 5,000
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BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)

Gull’s Nest on Mid-Summer Night, Isle of Skye, 1947

Price Realised USD 9,375
Price Realised USD 9,375
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BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)
Gull’s Nest on Mid-Summer Night, Isle of Skye, 1947
gelatin silver print, printed 1969
stamped photographer's 'BILL BRANDT' credit in blue ink, numbered '58' and variously otherwise numbered in pencil (verso); typed credit, title and date on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, verso)
image: 24 1/4 x 20 5/8 in. (61.5 x 52.3 cm.)
sheet: 24 7/8 x 21 1/4 in. (63.1 x 53.9 cm.)

Provenance
Acquired from the artist, 1969.
Literature
Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light, Da Capo Press, New York, 1977, pl. 115.
Mark Haworth-Booth, Bill Brandt Behind the Camera: Photographs 1928-1983, Aperture/Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York, 1985, p. 53.
Ian Jeffrey (ed.), Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1993, p. 133.
Nigel Warburton, Bill Brandt; Selected texts and bibliography, Clio Press, Oxford, 1993, fig. 49, p. 110 and fig. 53, p. 127.
Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1999, pl. 155.
Brandt: Icons, Bill Brandt Archive, Great Britain, 2004, n.p.
Exhibition catalogue, Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013, p. 131.
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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