Lot Essay
This print had been a gift from Bill Brandt to his friend, Chapman Mortimer, who wrote the introduction to his book, Perspective of Nudes.
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A Snicket in Halifax, 1937
Details
BILL BRANDT (1904-1983)
A Snicket in Halifax, 1937
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970
signed in ink (on the mount)
image/sheet: 13½ x 11½in. (34.4 x 29.3cm.)
mount: 20 x 16in. (50.9 x 40.7cm.)
A Snicket in Halifax, 1937
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1970
signed in ink (on the mount)
image/sheet: 13½ x 11½in. (34.4 x 29.3cm.)
mount: 20 x 16in. (50.9 x 40.7cm.)
Provenance
From the artist;
to Chapman Mortimer (author);
with The Photographers' Gallery, London;
to the present owner
to Chapman Mortimer (author);
with The Photographers' Gallery, London;
to the present owner
Literature
'Hail, Hell and Halifax,' Lilliput, February 1948, pp. 51-56; Brandt, Shadow of Light, Da Capo Press, 1977, pl. 41; Bill Brandt: Photographs 1928-1983, Barbican Art Gallery, 1993, p. 126; Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams, pl. 85, p. 102; Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light, The Museum of Modern Art, 2013, p. 71
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