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Lot 44
Sale 5856 - Photographs & Photobooks
Sep 11, 2019
9:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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BRASSAÏ (FRENCH, 1899-1984) LA FEMME AU MONOCLE, MONTPARNASSE, PARIS
1933, printed later. Signed and editioned 2/40 in ink on recto and with photographer's stamp and title and date in an unknown hand on verso. Gelatin silver print.
Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. (29.2 x 21.6cm).
Sheet: 15 7/8 x 12 in. (40.3 x 30.5cm).
Part of Brassaï's "Paris by Night" series which was published as a book of the same name in 1933. It depicts a patron of Le Monocle, a lesbian nightclub in Paris.