Telling Stories: Picture Post and its Legacy

29 March - 10 June 2022

Bill Brandt 1904-1983

Barmaid at the Crooked Billet, Tower Hill, London, 1939, 1939

Oversized Gelatin Silver Print

51.7 x 44.7 cms
20 5/16 x 17 9/16 ins

13261

£ 18,000.00 +5%

Rare oversized exhibition print. Only known print this size. This oversized exhibition print was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1969 and displayed in their major...

Provenance

Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired from the artist, 1969.
deaccessioned January 2018

Exhibitions

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Bill Brandt, September 15November 30, 1969, and thereafter to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1970. (This print)

Literature

Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light, Da Capo Press, New York, 1977, pl. 28b.
Mark Haworth-Booth, Bill Brandt Behind the Camera: Photographs 1928-1983, Aperture/Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York, 1985, p. 16.
Ian Jeffrey (ed.), Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 1993, p. 81.
Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, 1999, pl. 60.
Exhibition catalogue, Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2013, p. 54.

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