Top Withens, West Riding, Yorkshire, 1945

Price Realised USD 8,750

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BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)

Top Withens, West Riding, Yorkshire, 1945

Price Realised USD 8,750

BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)
Top Withens, West Riding, Yorkshire, 1945
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1969
numbered '48' in pencil (mount, recto); numbered '48' and variously otherwise numbered in pencil with typed credit, title and date on affixed Museum of Modern Art label (mat, verso)
image: 20 x 17 1/4 in. (50.8 x 43.8 cm.)
sheet: 20 1/2 x 17 3/4 in. (52 x 45 cm.)
mount: 30 x 26 in. (76.1 x 66 cm.)

Acquired from the artist, 1969.

Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light, Da Capo Press, New York, 1977, pl. 106.
Mark Haworth-Booth, Bill Brandt Behind the Camera: Photographs 1928-1983, Aperture/Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York, 1985, p. 58.
Ian Jeffrey (ed.), Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1993, p. 140.
Nigel Warburton, Bill Brandt; Selected texts and bibliography, Clio Press, Oxford, 1993, fig. 7, p. 9.
Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1999, pl. 163.
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. 140.

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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