Brassaï Photographing the Parisian Night on Boulevard Saint-Jacques
1932
2008.5
Not currently on view
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11-3/4 x 8-5/8 in. (image) 16 x 12 in. (sheet)
Mark Description
inscribed in black ink, below image, lower left: 2/150 signed in black ink, below image, lower right: Brassai inscribed, signed and dated in black ink, verso, center left: Pour mes/ chers amis/ France et Dan Benley bien/ amicalement/ Brassai/ paris/ le 27 mai/ 1973 inscribed and signed in lack ink, verso, center right: NO. 186/BRASSAI, 1932/ 2/150/Brassai copyright and studio stamps in purple, verso, center
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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crane Fund and General Art Fund
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Dan and Frances Berley, New York, New York; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, New York); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2008.
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More than a self-portrait, this is a narrative of Brassaï at work in his preferred milieu—Paris by night—aiming his 6-by-9 inch Voigtlander down the cobbled street where he lived in the Montparnasse Quarter. [new para] After coming to Paris in 1924, Brassaï explored the "City of Light" after dark—the lonely lamp-lit streets, the occasional pedestrian, the prostitutes, and the crowded, smoky cafes. These he compiled into his first book in 1933, Paris de nuit (Paris at Night), which earned for him the honorific "the eye of Paris."
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