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Brassaï
[Hungarian-born French Photographer, 1899-1984]
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Brassaï Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Brassaï available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW! (There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW! Photograph collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French) Chômeurs aux Halles
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Avenue de l'Observatoire Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina "Bijou" of Montmartre
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Gala Soirée at Maxim's Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Girl Playing Snooker, Montmartre (La Fille au Billard) Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide Colonne Morris dans le brouillard (Morris Column in the fog), ca.1930
Bibliotheque Nationale de France (in French) Graffiti 101. La magie. Tête aztèque
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW! Giacometti Sculpture "Femme Qui Marche", 1933
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma Kiki Singing in a Montparnasse Cabaret, 1933
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid (in Spanish)
Art Market: (e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Bal Musette of the greengrocers, rue de Lappe, ca.1932
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive (database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Masters of Photography
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Photo Seminars Online
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Brassai Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum) Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Magyar Elektronikus Könyvtár (Hungarian Electronic Library) (in Hungarian) Brief biographical sketch from the Hungarian Biographical Encyclopedia
PhotoQuotes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Brassai: Letters to My Parents
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Brassai: The Eye of Paris
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Brassai: Paris By Night
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