Classic Photographs

Classic Photographs

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Property from the Collection of Dr. Joseph D. Lichtenberg

Bill Brandt

Portrait of a Young Girl, Eaton Place

Lot Closed

October 5, 02:26 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Bill Brandt

1904 - 1983

Portrait of a Young Girl, Eaton Place


gelatin silver print, titled, dated, and annotated in ink and with the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse, framed, an Edwynn Houk Gallery label on the reverse, 1955

image: 10 by 8 in. (25.4 by 20.3 cm.)

frame: 21 ¾ by 16 ⅞ in. (55.2 by 42.9 cm.)

Collection of the photographer

Dorothy Anne 'Noya' Brandt, the photographer's wife

John-Paul Kernot, the photographer's step-grandson

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2001

"Photography Year Book," Photography Magazine Ltd, 1956, p. 21

Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light (New York, 1966, p. 76)

Sarah Hermanson Meister, Shadow & Light (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), p.117

This image features Bill Brandt’s ten-year-old niece, Judith.