Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

Soirée de gala, Chez Maxim's, Paris

1949
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
32.6 x 24 cm (12 7/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
Signed and numbered 7/30 in ink in the margin; signed in ink, '81, Rue du Faub.-St-Jacques' credit, '81, Faubourg St-Jacques' copyright credit, 'Tirage de l'Auteur' and reproduction limitation stamps on the verso; 'The Art Institute of Chicago' collection label affixed to the reverse of the mat.

Estimate
£3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠

Sold for £10,000

Contact Specialist
Lou Proud
Head of Photographs
London
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Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago

London 18 November 2014 2pm

1
Gertrude Käsebier
Untitled (Artist with Palette)
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
2
Gertrude Käsebier
Portrait of a Lady
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
3
Gertrude Käsebier
Auguste Rodin
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
Sold for £21,250
4
Julia Margaret Cameron
Selected Images
Estimate £9,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £11,250
5
Julia Margaret Cameron
Selected Images
Estimate £9,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £15,000
6
Lewis Wickes Hine
Spinner in Vivian Cotton Mills, Cherryville, N.C. Been at it 2 years. Where will her good looks be in ten years? Location: Cherryville, North Carolina, November
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
7
Julia Margaret Cameron
Mary Fisher
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
Sold for £6,250
8
Lewis Carroll (Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Margaret Frances Langton Clarke
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
Sold for £5,625
9
Charles Marville
Rue d'Arras (de la Rue Clopin)
Estimate £600 - 800 ‡
Sold for £1,000
10
Francis Frith
Selected Images of Egypt, Palestine and Nubia
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
11
Lewis Wickes Hine
Selected Images of Coal Miners
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡
12
Walker Evans
Selected Images
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡
Sold for £3,250
13
Alfred Stieglitz
The Steerage
Estimate £9,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £11,250
14
Johan Hagemeyer
City skyline seen through railing
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
15
Harold Eugene Edgerton
Light Bulb Breaking
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
Sold for £2,750
16
Harold Eugene Edgerton
Tumbling Tee
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡
Sold for £3,500
17
André Kertész
Fork, Paris
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠
Sold for £5,250
18
André Kertész
Chez Mondrian
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡♠
Sold for £4,750
19
Edward Weston
Nude on Sand, Oceano
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
Sold for £4,375
20
Edward Weston
Oceano
Estimate £4,000 - 5,000 ‡
Sold for £10,000
21
Bill Brandt
Vastérival, Normandy
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡♠
Sold for £5,250
22
Edward Weston
Selected Nudes
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £9,375
23
Bill Brandt
East Sussex Coast
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠
Sold for £5,625
24
Bill Brandt
Eygalières, France
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡♠
Sold for £2,500
25
Bill Brandt
East Sussex Coast
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡♠
Sold for £3,500
26
André Kertész
Distortion #52
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠
Sold for £4,375
27
Arnold Genthe
Anna Pavlowa
Estimate £1,200 - 1,800 ‡
Sold for £750
28
Johan Hagemeyer
Hands of Miss J. B.
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 ‡♠
29
Bill Brandt
Misty Evening in Sheffield
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡♠
30
André Kertész
Notre Dame at Night, Paris
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
31
Bill Brandt
Campden Hill, London
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
32
Ilse Bing
Self Portrait with Leica, Paris
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠
Sold for £4,000
33
André Kertész
The Quais at Early Morning, Paris
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
Sold for £2,375
34
André Kertész
Selected Distortions
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡♠
Sold for £13,750
35
André Kertész
Selected Distortions
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡♠
Sold for £11,875
36
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Soirée de gala, Chez Maxim's, Paris
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡♠
Sold for £10,000
37
Robert Doisneau
Gardens of the Louvre, Paris, 1930; The Rudier Foundry, Paris
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
Sold for £1,875
38
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
The Riviera
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
Sold for £3,000
39
Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Madame Marianne D.B.
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
Sold for £1,875
40
Walker Evans
Torn Movie Poster
Estimate £4,000 - 5,000 ‡
Sold for £9,375
41
Berenice Abbott
New York at Night
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
Sold for £5,625
42
Berenice Abbott
Fifth Avenue Houses, nos. 4, 6, 8, New York
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
Sold for £6,875
43
Berenice Abbott
George Washington Bridge Under Construction, New York
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
44
Walker Evans
New Orleans Boarding House
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡
Sold for £4,375
45
Walker Evans
Residential Area, Morgantown, West Virginia
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
46
Walker Evans
Selected Images of Interiors
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
47
Walker Evans
19th Century Gingerbread House, Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
48
Walker Evans
Blair Fuller in front of house, Bedford, New York, June 21
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 ‡
49
Helen Levitt
Untitled
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £1,625
50
Berenice Abbott
The El at the Bowery, New York
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
51
Robert Frank
Savannah, Georgia
Estimate £9,000 - 12,000 ‡
52
Garry Winogrand
Central Park Zoo, New York City
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡
Sold for £6,875
53
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡
54
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
55
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 ‡
56
W. Eugene Smith
Untitled from New Mexico
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £1,000
57
Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
58
Johan Hagemeyer
Moss Landing near Watsonville
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡♠
59
Ralph Steiner
Selected Images
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
60
Imogen Cunningham
Banana Plant
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
61
Edward Weston
Selected Images
Estimate £7,000 - 9,000 ‡
Sold for £13,750
62
Edward Weston
Dunes, Oceano
Estimate £6,000 - 8,000 ‡
Sold for £23,750
63
Harry Callahan
Chicago
Estimate £4,000 - 5,000 ‡
Sold for £5,000
64
Harry Callahan
New Hampshire
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
Sold for £2,500
65
Ansel Adams
Aspens, Northern New Mexico
Estimate £15,000 - 20,000 ‡
Sold for £18,750
66
Eliot Porter
Intimate Landscapes
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡
Sold for £20,000
67
Ansel Adams
Mount Williamson, Sierra Nevada from Manzanar, California
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
68
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Selected Images
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡
Sold for £5,625
69
Aaron Siskind
Uruapan, Mexico
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £2,125
70
Aaron Siskind
Buttressed Wall, Church, Alcoman, Mexico
Estimate £2,500 - 3,500 ‡
Sold for £3,500
71
Aaron Siskind
Untitled
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
72
Brett Weston
Fifteen Photographs
Estimate £9,000 - 12,000 ‡
Sold for £10,000
73
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Estimate £12,000 - 18,000 ‡
74
Mario Giacomelli
Untitled from Scanno, Italia del Sud (Scanno, Southern Italy)
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 ‡♠
Sold for £1,500
75
Mario Giacomelli
Untitled from La Buona Terra (The Good Earth)
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 ‡♠
Sold for £938
76
W. Eugene Smith
Hitachi, Japan
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡
77
W. Eugene Smith
Madness from Haiti
Estimate £3,000 - 4,000 ‡
Sold for £4,375
78
Aaron Siskind
Chicago 32
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £3,750
79
Aaron Siskind
Yuma, Arizona 1
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £2,250
80
Aaron Siskind
Selected Images
Estimate £5,000 - 7,000 ‡
81
Walker Evans
Selected Images of Cuba
Estimate £3,500 - 4,500 ‡
82
Margaret Bourke-White
Weeping Women, South Korea
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 ‡
Sold for £1,875
83
Margaret Bourke-White
A Moneylender's House, India
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡
Sold for £2,500
84
Inge Morath
Selected Images
Estimate £1,800 - 2,500 ‡♠
85
The Art Institute of Chicago
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, Special Edition Portfolio
Estimate £1,500 - 2,000 ‡
Sold for £2,500
86
Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Europeans: Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson
Estimate £700 - 900 ‡♠
Sold for £875

Photographs from the Collection of the Art...

London 18 November 2014 2pm

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Brassaï (Gyula Halász)

Soirée de gala, Chez Maxim's, Paris

Photographs from the Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago