Name: BRASSAÏ (1899–1984)
Brand: Lovers' Quarrel, Bal des Quatre Saisons, rue de Lappe, Paris, 1932
Price: 4800.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

BRASSAÏ (1899–1984)
Lovers' Quarrel, Bal des Quatre Saisons, rue de Lappe, Paris, 1932
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted on card, printed c. 1955
credited, numbered 'Exh. #296' and annotated 'Rapho-Guillumette' in an unknown hand in pencil with Museum of Modern Art 'Family of Man' exhibition stamp [partially trimmed] and with Museum Photography Department Study Collection stamp [partially trimmed] (flush mount, verso)
image: 9 x 6 5/8 in. (22.8 x 16.8 cm.)
sheet/flush mount: 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. (23.4 x 17.1 cm.)

Gifted by Rapho-Guillumette.

Exhibition catalogue, The Family of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955, n.p.
John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York Graphic Society/The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973, pp. 110-111.

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Lot Essay

The nature of the misunderstanding between the couple in the picture...is too serious and too private to speculate about. In any event it is not important whether their relationship was personal or commercial, or both. The photograph is about the bitter and desperate disappointment of private loss. Who else ever made a picture so full of wormwood? (John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, p. 110).

This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition The Family of Man presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1955.