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Tuesday 12 December 2023, 10:30 AM • Milan

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BRASSAI (Gyula Halasz)

(1899 - 1994)

Bordel, rue Quincampoix, Paris, 1932

Artist's Resale Right

Estimate

€ 500 - 800

Sold

€ 903

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Gelatin silver print, printed by Yvon Le Marlec in 1988
cm 30,3 x 40,3 (cm 27,5 x 35,5 picture)| 11.9 x 15.9 in. (10.8 x 14 in. picture)
Yvon le Marlec stamps on the verso
Troubled by a thousand suggestions, the Paris of the 1930s attracted artists from all over the world who saw in that city a privileged place to express themselves and which themselves, with their presence, contributed to making it so. Among the many foreigners who went there, some were Hungarians, such as Gyula Halasz Brassai, who immediately stood out for his ability to capture everyday Parisian life with a direct but also poetic style, as demonstrated by these images capable of moving from portraits to intimacy, even revealing the interior of Picasso's atelier that he frequented.