PARIS, Brassai sales, Hotel Drouot, Millon Associes, 2 and 3 October 2006
Brassai (1899-1984)
A little more than twenty years following Brassai's death and a year after that of his widow's, an important ensemble by the famous Hungarian is being scattered.
On 2 October will be offered drawings done in Berlin, Paris and sculptures.
The photographs, some 561, will be offered in two sessions, on 3 October, called Jour (Day) regarding landscapes, nudes, fairs, well-known persons and Nuit (Night).
Brassai was a leading member of the French "school" of photography; he was born Gyula Halasz in Brasov and takes his pseudonym from his birthplace.
As a young man, he studied painting and sculpture in the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Later he became a journalist. Coming to Paris in 1918 and fell in love with the city and with the camera.
When you meet the man you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes, comments writer Henry Miller on French photographer Brassai.
