Sold for €15,000
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