LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print on bromide paper, postcard

Measurements:

4.45 in. (11.30 cm.) (height) by 3.03 in. (7.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Painlevé' and stamped 'Foto Lotar' (verso)

Literature:

Paris, Capitale photographique 1920-1940: Collection Christian Bouqueret, Catalogue exposition Jeu de Paume, Paris, Editions de La Martinière, 2009, p.81; J.Painlevé, A.Masaki Bellows, M. McDougall, B.Berge, Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painlevé, MIT Press, 2001; I.Walker, City gorged with dreams: Surrealism and Documentary Photography in Interwar Paris, Manchester University Press, 2002