Brassaï

Carl Uytterhaegen, 1976, Brassai, Arles, France, Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Carl Uytterhaegen, LL/15855

Brassaï

Born: Gyula Halász

Born: 1899, 9 September - Transylvania (now Romania) - Brasso, Siebenburgen (North of Bucharest)
Died: 1984, 8 July
Gender: Male
Active: France
 
French sculptor, writer, draughtsman and photographer.
 
There are currently over 1,400 high resolution scans of the work of Brassaï held by the Réunion des musées nationaux (RMN) - Agence photographique (http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/home.aspx) which brings together material from French national museums. The original images are housed within a number of collections including those of the Pompidou Centre and the private collection of Mme Brassaï. The negatives, contacts and prints that he took on Picasso were given by Mme Brassaï to the Musée Picasso.
 
Through his career he worked with a number of different galleries. In the late 1960s, Brassai worked with Robert Schoelkopf, then Lee Witkin and then Marlborough Gallery in the 1970s, but for over the past twenty years the exclusive dealer of Brassai‘s work has been Edwynn Houk.
 
The status of the Estate is unclear at present but Agnes de Gouvion St. Cyr is the executor and she is also Inspecteur Generale for Photography in the French Ministry of Culture.
 
[Special thanks to Stuart Alexander for his advice on this.]

Genealogy of Brassaï

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