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BRASSAÏ (1899–1984)
Deux Voyous de la bande du Grand Albert, Quartier Italie, 1932
ferrotyped gelatin silver print, printed mid-1960s
signed, titled and dated in pencil, with photograher's credit stamp and Metropolitan Museum of Art deaccession stamp (verso)
image/sheet: 11 5/8 x 8 7/8 in. (29.5 x 22.5 cm.)
Provenance
The Artist;
Warner Communications Inc. Purchase Fund, 1980.
Literature
Brassaï, Brassai: The Secret Paris of the 30s, Pantheon Books, New York, 1976, pl. 172, p. 56.
Exhibition catalogue, Brassai: From Surrealism to Art Informel, Fundació Antoni Tápies, Barcelona, 1993, pl. 67, p. 130.
Jean-Claude Gautrand, Brassaï, 1899-1984: Brassaï's Universal Art, Taschen, Köln, 2004, p. 76
Sylvie Aubenas and Quentin Bajac (eds.), Brassai: Paris Nocturne, Thames & Hudson, New York, 2013, pl. 104.
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