Name: BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)
Brand: Jean Dubuffet, 1963
Price: 7500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

BILL BRANDT (1904–1983)
Jean Dubuffet, 1963
gelatin silver print
titled, dated and stamped with photographer's credit (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery and exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 9¹⁄₈ x 7⁷⁄₈ in. (23.2 cm x 20 cm.)
sheet: 9⁷⁄₈ x 8 in. (25.1 x 20.3 cm.)

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001.

Mark Haworth-Booth, Bill Brandt: Shadow of Light, De Capo Press, New York, 1977, p. 100.
Alan Ross, Bill Brandt: Portraits, University of Texas Press, Austin, 1982, pl. 40.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 307.
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013, n.p.

Arles, Recontres de la Photographie; Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2005-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.

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'Collecting is like running around in a thunderstorm praying that you will be hit by lightning.
There was a print of this Brandt image at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in an otherwise unremarkable show. Shazaam! A moment like this is everything to a collector. You want to be able to grab someone, anyone, and share with them how thrilling you find the image.
It was almost two years before I found a print that I could buy. The photograph is of the French artist Jean Dubuffet and, yes, the eye is wide open. It took some thought on my part, but eventually it seemed clear, the journey was over. After thirty-five years of collecting, maybe I had found myself. My unconscious had been my guide. My eye was open.' – W.M. Hunt