Bill Brandt
Henry Moore, 1942
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
22.8 x 19.3 cms
8 15/16 x 7 9/16 ins
Series: 7. Portraits
10934
Provenance
The Estate of Bill BrandtEdwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Exhibitions
Bill Brandt / Henry Moore, The Hepworth Wakefield (7 February - 31 May 2020). The exhibition will tour to Yale Center for British Art, USA (June 25-September 13, 2020) and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich (November 22, 2020-February 28, 2021). (This print)Literature
'Shelter Pictures', Lilliput, December 1942, pp473-482 (illustrated)Sarah Hermanson Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light, (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), (illustrated p.200)
Martina Droth and Paul Messier (eds.), Bill Brandt / Henry Moore, Yale University Press, 2020 (This print)
Titled in ink on recto margin beneath image. Brandt's 58 Hillfield Court stamp on verso and also inscribed Lilliput. This extremely rare image is the actual photograph used for one...
Titled in ink on recto margin beneath image.
Brandt's 58 Hillfield Court stamp on verso and also inscribed Lilliput.
This extremely rare image is the actual photograph used for one of Bill Brandt's most celebrated published stories, a collaborative piece for Lilliput magazine of photographs by Brandt and drawings by Henry Moore of people sheltering from the bombs in the tunels of the London Underground.
This famous feature began with this photograph by Brandt of Moore, and the Hyman Collection print has Barndt's hand-written annotations for the Lilliput designer on the reverse.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection
Brandt's 58 Hillfield Court stamp on verso and also inscribed Lilliput.
This extremely rare image is the actual photograph used for one of Bill Brandt's most celebrated published stories, a collaborative piece for Lilliput magazine of photographs by Brandt and drawings by Henry Moore of people sheltering from the bombs in the tunels of the London Underground.
This famous feature began with this photograph by Brandt of Moore, and the Hyman Collection print has Barndt's hand-written annotations for the Lilliput designer on the reverse.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection