PIERRE DUBREUIL (1872-1944)
Dubreuil, Pierre
Behind the Scenes
Oil print. 1902. Etched monogram on the recto; titled Derrire les Coulisses in pencil on the mount; signed, titled Conversations dans les Coulisses in pencil, titled again Conversation behind the Scenes, numbered 19 in ink and stamped DB 69 in red ink on the reverse of the mount.
9 x 7in. (24.2 x 19.1cm.)
Literature
Jacobson, Pierre Dubreuil, Photographs 1896-1935, fig. 3.
Exhibited
Pierre Dubreuil Retrospective, Royal Photographic Society, London, 1935; Pierre Dubreuil Photographs 1896-1935, Retrospective Exhibition, Muse d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987; Pierre Dubreuil Rediscovered, The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California, 1988; Alliance Franaise, New York, 1989; The Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1990.
Lot Essay
This is the only known print of this image in private hands. A version without the cello in the foreground is in the Clarence White Collection at the Art Museum, Princeton University.