Couple at the Four Seasons Ball, Rue de Lappe, Paris, c. 1932

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

overall: 29.7 x 23.4 cm (11 11/16 x 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Collectors Committee

Accession Number

1998.38.2

Artists / Makers

Brassaï (artist) French, born Transylvania, 1899 - 1984

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Inscription

lower right verso in black ink: Brassai; center verso: copyright stamp / artist stamp; all by later hands: upper left verso in graphite: 23,5x29,5; upper center verso in graphite: [vifer?] pl. 2; upper center verso in black ink: Couple souriant; upper right verso in graphite: No. 3; center right verso in graphite: Page 78B; center verso in red ink: Pl. 2; lower right verso in graphite: XX786

Provenance

The artist, bequeathed to his wife, Gilberte, Paris, France; on consignment 1997 to (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York); purchased with donated funds from the Collectors Committee by NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Brassaï, Gilberte, Mme
Houk Gallery, Edwynn

Exhibition History

1999: Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015