THE FACE OF MODERNISM: A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION Brassaï (Gyula Halász) Couple at the Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe circa 1932 Gelatin silver print, printed circa 1940. 11 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (29.5 x 23.2 cm) Credited in an unidentified hand in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Gerard Levy, Paris Private Collection, New York Literature Brassaï, Voluptés de Paris, p. 15 Bulfinch Press, Brassaï: The Monograph, front, back cover and p. 82 for variant crops Centre Pompidou, Brassaï, p. 82 Soucek, Brassaï, p. 18 Thames & Hudson, Brassaï: The Secret Paris of the 30s, n.p. Weski and Liesbrock, How You Look At It: Photographs of the 20th Century, p. 270 Catalogue Essay “Rightly or wrongly I felt at the time that this underground world represented Paris at its least cosmopolitan, at its most alive, its most authentic, that in these colorful faces of its underworld there had been preserved, from age to age, almost without alteration, the folklore of its most remote past.” — Brassaï, The Secret Paris of the 30s, n.p. Another print of this image is in the collection of The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Please reference lot 1 for further information on Brassaï and the current lot. Read More
THE FACE OF MODERNISM: A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION Brassaï (Gyula Halász) Couple at the Bal des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe circa 1932 Gelatin silver print, printed circa 1940. 11 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (29.5 x 23.2 cm) Credited in an unidentified hand in ink on the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance Gerard Levy, Paris Private Collection, New York Literature Brassaï, Voluptés de Paris, p. 15 Bulfinch Press, Brassaï: The Monograph, front, back cover and p. 82 for variant crops Centre Pompidou, Brassaï, p. 82 Soucek, Brassaï, p. 18 Thames & Hudson, Brassaï: The Secret Paris of the 30s, n.p. Weski and Liesbrock, How You Look At It: Photographs of the 20th Century, p. 270 Catalogue Essay “Rightly or wrongly I felt at the time that this underground world represented Paris at its least cosmopolitan, at its most alive, its most authentic, that in these colorful faces of its underworld there had been preserved, from age to age, almost without alteration, the folklore of its most remote past.” — Brassaï, The Secret Paris of the 30s, n.p. Another print of this image is in the collection of The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Please reference lot 1 for further information on Brassaï and the current lot. Read More
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