Perhaps more than any other artist, Brassaï – born Gyula Halász in Brassó, Transylvania – gave us the Paris of the 1920s and 1930s, with its nightlife, its painters and writers, its dynamism, at a time when it was the undisputed artistic centre of the world.
From a gallery celebrating a show of his work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
"Salvador Dalí and Gala, Villa Seurat, Paris, 1932–33." © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
"Kiki de Montparnasse and her Friends, Thérèse Treize and Lily, ca. 1932." © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
"Avenue de l’Observatoire in the Fog, ca. 1937." © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
"Billiard Player, Boulevard de Rochechouart, 1932–33." © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
"View of Paris from Notre Dame, toward the Hôtel-Dieu and the Tour Saint-Jacques, 1933" © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
"Paris, 1930–33." © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
"On the boulevard Saint-Jacques, 1930–32." © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
“Bal des Quatre-Saisons, rue de Lappe, ca. 1932.” © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
Mick Hartley 
Leave a comment