ILSE BING (1899-1998)
Le Coup de Vent, Tour Eiffel, Paris, 1931gelatin silver print, printed c. 1980
signed and dated in white ink lower left (image); signed, dated and inscribed 'it was so windy in the Eiffel tower' in pencil (verso)
image: 26.6 x 32.6 cm. (10½ x 12⅞ in.)
sheet: 28 x 35.4 cm (11 x 13⅞ in.)
Provenance:Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.
Literature:Ilse Bing. Paris 1931-1952, exhibition catalogue Musée Carnavalet, Paris, Paris-Musées, 1987, cover and pl.6.
Larisa Dryansky/Edwynn Houk,
Ilse Bing. Photography Through the Looking Glass, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2006, p.127.
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