BRASSAÏ (1899-1984)

Couple d'amoureux dans un petit café, 1932

细节

BRASSAÏ (1899-1984)
Couple d'amoureux dans un petit café, 1932
gelatin silver print, printed 1950s
titled, in an unknown hand, in ink and '81, rue du Faubg St. Jacques' credit stamp (on the verso)
11 5/8 x 9 1/8in. (29.5 x 23.2cm.)

来源

With Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

出版

Brassaï, Le Paris Secret des Années Trente, Chêne, 1976, p. 71; Brassaï: The Eye of Paris, Houk Friedman, 1993, p. 3; Sayag and Lionel-Marie, Brassaï: The Monograph, Little, Brown and Co., 2000, p. 85

拍品专文

Brassaï took up photography in order to capture the Paris nightlife that endlessly fascinated him. With fresh eyes he rarely had to wander far from home to expose the two dozen heavy glass plates he was able to carry in his camera bag. The present lot was made in the café on the ground floor of the hotel where he lived in a 'quartier populaire' near the Place d'Italie. Brassaï had an extraordinary talent for photographing people in interiors lit by shocking and disruptive flash powder in a way that looks entirely spontaneous and natural. This is a deceptively simple image whose multiple reflections suggest the many facets of love and courtship.