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Wednesday 17 March 2021, 04:00 PM • Milan

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Bill Brandt

(1904 - 1983)

Rainswept roofs, 1933

Estimate

€ 2.500 - 3.000

Sold

€ 4.470

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Gelatin silver print, printed in years 1970, applied on original cardboard
13.4 x 11.5 in. (18.1 x 15.4 in. picture)
Signed in black felt pen on the cardboard recto

Literature

O. Steinert, Subjective Fotografie, 1952, Bruder Auer Verlag, Bonn, p. 53
The German Herman Wilhelm Brandt lived two decisive turning points for his career: when he embraced the Surrealism cause mutating the aesthetics and the left-winged political horizons and when he discovered England where he moved to and where he changed his name into Bill. This image summarizes - in the references to Atget, in the gloomy representation of a rainy day and in the rigor of the composition - the themes dear to his style.