2nd Oct, 2020 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2020

 
  Lot 77
 

ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898–1995)
‘Children at a Puppet Theatre’, Paris 1963

Sold for €15,000


Lot details

Estimate: € 16.000-20.000

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1970s

22,7 x 34,4 cm

Signed by the photographer in ink in the margin, his “PHOTO BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT” stamp on the reverse, annotation reading “Children watching Puppet Theatre in the Tuileries Garden of Paris at the moment the dragon is slain” written by Eisenstaedt on the reverse

PROVENANCE acquired by the present owner from the Family Estate of Eisenstaedt, Allan Leas (nephew of Eisenstaedt)

LITERATURE Alfred Eisenstaedt (ed.), Eisenstaedt on Eisenstaedt. A self-portrait, New York 1985, p. 105; Doris O'Neil, Eisenstaedt: Remembrances, Boston 1990, p.114-115.

Start price: €8.000