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BRASSAÏ (1899–1984)
La Parade d'un Spectacle de Danse Foraine, Boulevard Saint-Jacques, c. 1931
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
signed in pencil and stamped with '81, Faubourg St. Jacques' and '81, Rue du Faub. St. Jacques' credits (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition label (frame backing board)
image/sheet: 9 x 111⁄2 in. (22.8 x 19.2 cm.)
Provenance
Marlborough Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1978.
Literature
Alain Sayag and Annick Lionel-Marie (eds.), Brassai: The Monograph, Bulfinch Press, Boston, 2000, p. 250.
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 135.
Sylvie Aubenas and Quentin Bajac, Brassai: Paris Nocturne, Thames and Hudson, London, 2013, pl. 200, pl. 55.
Exhibited
Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2006.
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