Brassaï (Gyula Halász) - Photographs New York Wednesday, October 11, 2023 | Phillips
  • The four Brassai photographs offered here and in lots 65, 66 and 68, all originate from the private collection of Madame Brassai, the photographer's widow, and were acquired from Edwynn Houk Gallery in 1993. Each captures often-taboo scenes of Parisian nightlife, a subject Brassai joyfully immersed himself in via 'trickery and diplomacy' throughout the 1930s, after emigrating there from his native Hungary in 1924.

    • Provenance

      Private Collection of Madame Brassaï, Paris
      Houk Friedman Gallery, New York, 1993

    • Literature

      Thames & Hudson, Brassaï: The Secret Paris of the 30's, n.p.

Photographs from a Prominent New York Collection

67

At Le Monocle, Boulevard Edgar-Quinet, Montparnass

circa 1932
Gelatin silver print, probably printed 1950s or 1960s.
8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Signed in ink, two '81, Rue du Faubourg St-Jacques' copyright credit stamps, and notations in unidentified hands in ink on the reverse.

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Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for $7,620

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New York Auction 11 October 2023