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BRASSAÏ. The Artists of My Life.
Illustrated with full-page reproductions of Brassaï's photographs of artists at work. 4to, pictorial paper over silver-stamped cloth, with a special clasped presentation folder at the front housing the photogravure. DELUXE EDITION FROM WITKIN-BERLEY, ONE OF 150 COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY BRASSAÏ, ISSUED WITH A PHOTOGRAVURE.
New York: Viking Press, (1982)
[1,000/1,500]
WITH--Henri Matisse drawing from the nude. Hand-pulled dust-grained photogravure, the image mesauring 8¼x6¼ inches (21x15.9 cm.), the sheet 10½x7¾ inches (26.7x19.7 cm.), with Brassaï's signature, in ink, and the edition notation 150/150, on recto. 1939; printed 1982.
From the Estate of Lee Witkin; by descent to the Present Owner.
