Alfred Eisenstaedt - Photographs London Tuesday, May 7, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Literature

    Alfred Eisenstaedt: Witness to Our Time, New York: Viking, 1980, p. 55
    Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt: A Self-Portrait, New York: Abbeville Press, 1985, p. 33

63

Ice skating waiter, St. Moritz, Switzerland

1932
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
44.5 x 34 cm (17 1/2 x 13 3/8 in)
Signed in ink in the margin; dated ‘1934’ [sic], annotated ‘Head waiter René Breguet brings aperitif to English guests at the skating rink of the Grand Hotel in St. Moritz’ in ink and credit stamp on the verso.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £16,250

Contact Specialist
Lou Proud
Head of Photographs, London
lproud@phillips.com
+ 44 207 318 4092

Photographs

London 8 May 2013 4pm