Le Facteur de Nuit (The Night Postman)

c. 1950

Sabine Weiss

Associated Names
Sabine Weiss

Artist, French, born Switzerland, 1924 - 2022

This is a photograph of a foggy street scene viewed from inside a café. The image captures a silhouette of a figure walking outside in a misty atmosphere. The photograph is taken from inside a café, looking through a large window onto the street. Inside the café, a table is visible in the foreground, set with cups and saucers, and an ashtray with cigarette butts. Outside, the thick fog creates an ethereal backdrop, where only the silhouette of a person can be seen walking by. The dim light from street lamps enhances the scene's mysterious mood. The blurred and foggy ambiance of the photograph evokes a sense of solitude and quiet observation, capturing a transient moment in an everyday setting.

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Provenance

Norman Hall, London; (sale, Christie’s, King Street, London); (Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2020.

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Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, various printing notes in graphite and red crayon; center artist stamp in purple ink; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite underlined in blue crayon: ausFlecken!!; lower right in graphite: mailman [crossed out] - / "MAILMAN"


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