Transmutations
1934–1935
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View on museum website →Medium
portfolio of 12 gelatin silver prints
Dimensions
image/sheet (each): 23.65 × 17.78 cm (9 5/16 × 7 in.) mount (each): 38.1 × 57.15 cm (15 × 22 1/2 in.) other (portfolio): 39.53 × 30.48 × 3.65 cm (15 9/16 × 12 × 1 7/16 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Madame Gilberte Brassaï Estate
Accession Number
2013.5.24.1-12
About the Artist
Brassaï
Brassaï was born Gyula Halász on September 9, 1899, in Brassó, Transylvania — a city then part of Austria-Hungary and now Brașov, Romania — from which he would eventually take his celebrated pseudonym. After studying painting and sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest and later at Berlin's Academy of Fine Arts, he settled in Paris in 1924, initially working as a journalist and...