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Brassaï — '14 Juillet À La Bastille'
Brassaï

'14 Juillet À La Bastille'

A striking silver gelatin photograph by the legendary Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï, capturing the vibrant festivities of Bastille Day in Paris in 1934. The oversized, ferrotyped print conveys the atmospheric energy and dynamic street life that defined Brassaï's iconic documentation of Parisian culture, rendered with his characteristic mastery of light and shadow. Bearing the photographer's studio stamps from his rue du Faubourg St.-Jacques address and likely printed in the 1940s or 1950s, this work represents a significant example of his celebrated visual chronicle of mid-twentieth-century France.

Medium
oversized, ferrotyped, titled and dated in ink, annotated in pencil, the photographer's '81 rue du Faub St. Jacques, Paris - XIV Port Royal 23-41' and '81 rue du Fauborg St.-Jacques, Paris 14eme, Tel. 707.23.41' studio stamps on the reverse, overmatted, framed, 1934, possibly printed in the 1940s or 1950s

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March 24, 2020

Estimate: $15,000$25,000

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Brassaï, '14 Juillet À La Bastille'

A striking silver gelatin photograph by the legendary Hungarian-French photographer Brassaï, capturing the vibrant festivities of Bastille Day in Paris in 1934. The oversized, ferrotyped print conveys the atmospheric energy and dynamic street life that defined Brassaï's iconic documentation of Parisian culture, rendered with his characteristic mastery of light and shadow. Bearing the photographer's studio stamps from his rue du Faubourg St.-Jacques address and likely printed in the 1940s or 1950s, this work represents a significant example of his celebrated visual chronicle of mid-twentieth-century France.

Medium
oversized, ferrotyped, titled and dated in ink, annotated in pencil, the photographer's '81 rue du Faub St. Jacques, Paris - XIV Port Royal 23-41' and '81 rue du Fauborg St.-Jacques, Paris 14eme, Tel. 707.23.41' studio stamps on the reverse, overmatted, framed, 1934, possibly printed in the 1940s or 1950s
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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Monochrome, French, Twentieth Century, Celebration, Documentary, Photograph, Street Scene, Urban, Ferrotype, Black and White

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