Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 28.73 × 20.16 cm (11 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1998.52.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist, bequeathed to his wife, Gilberte, Paris, France; purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1998.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1998
Brassaï: The Eye of Paris, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-2000, no. 67.
2017
Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1998
Brassaï: The Eye of Paris. Exh. cat. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-2000: no. 67.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top center in graphite: 28,5 x 20; unknown hand, top right in graphite: Pic. Sc. 106/pl. c. / Couverture KAHN. / Les Artistes 177 / Convers. à Pic.l36; unknown hand, vertical upper left in graphite: As made as possible / horizontal / Hold 8'; unknown hand, upper right in graphite: moulade de la / main de Picasso / en 1943 / a l atelier en des grands-Augustins; unknown hand, upper right in graphite: 8/30; unknown hand, center in black ink: copyright:; stamped, center in blue ink in square: BRASSAÏ / 81, Rue du Faub.-St-Jacques / PARIS-XIVe - PORt-Royal 23-41; unknown hand, center right in blue ink: [underlined] Pic. Sc. 106 [end underline] / Conversations avec Picasso / No 36 / [illegible] No 41); stamped, lower left in purple ink: Triage de l'Auteur
Wikidata ID
Q64145489