Brassaï (Gyula Halász)
Festival, Cannes

Festival, Cannes

© Estate Brassaï - RMN-Grand Palais

Festival, Cannes
Festival, Cannes
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Festival, Cannes
Date1949
PlaceCannes, France
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 15/16 × 7 7/8 in. (25.2 × 20 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 7 7/8 in. (25.2 × 20 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne H. Bushman
Object number94.114
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


Although Brassaï often portrayed the urban landscape and the working class that inhabited it, here he took greatest delight in the abstract pattern of the striped tent being erected for a festival or circus.



Provenance[Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London]; purchased by MFAH, 1994.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped in purple ink, verso, center: BRASSAÏ
Stamped in black ink, verso, upper left quadrant: 12 MAR 1949
Stamped in purple ink, verso, center: BRASSAÏ

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