Brassaï
Lovers in a Small Café near the Place d’Italie
1931
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Brassaï
Lovers in a Small Café near the Place d’Italie
1931
Physical Qualities
Gelatin silver print, Sheet: 294 x 233 mm. (11 9/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from the Edward Joseph Gallagher III Memorial Collection; and partial gift of George H. Dalsheimer, Baltimore
Object Number
1988.237
Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960," 16 March - 8 June 2008.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November 1989.
Jan Howard, BMA, "The Collector's Eye: Photographs from the Museum's Dalsheimer Collection," 17 September - 19 November 1989.
Mike Weaver, editor, The Art of Photography, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989, pl. 284 Weston J. Naef, Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs, New York: MMA, 1982, ill. p. 113. Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr., 'Night Light: Brassai and Weegee', Artforum, XV/4 (Dec. 76), New York: Artforum, 1976, ill. p. 40. Rosalind Krauss, 'Nightwalkers', Art Journal LVI/1 (Spring 81), New York: College Art Association, 1981, pp. 38-39, ill. p. 34. Photographs, Sotheby's, Los Angeles, February 16 & 17, 1982, lot 63. 19th and 20th Century Photographs, Christie's East, May 13, 1986, lot 55. UNVERIFIED
Inscribed: upper right verso in graphite: "Pafe 71"; lower left verso in graphite: "Brassai / PL.78 / pafe 71"; lower left verso stamped in purple ink: "COPYRIGHT by / BRASSAI / 81, Faubourg St. Jacques / PARIS 14eme Tél. 707.23.41 / INTERDICTION DE REPRODUIRE / SANS AUTORISATION DE L'AUTEUR / PHOTOGRAPHIE ORIGINALE / Tirage de l'Auteur'"
