Lot 1647: [ Photograph ]

Salomon, Erich
1886 Berlin - 1944 Auschwitz
Brüning and Curtius in Paris.
July 1931. Vintage. Gelatin silver print. Agfa Brovira. Mat. 28,2 x 35,9cm. Verso with
photographer's studio stamp. In addition later copyright stamp from his son Peter Hunter.
Dated and indication of location in red pencil. Various annotations in pencil on printing.
Distinct handling traces.
Published in:
-Erich Salomon. Portrait of an Age. New York; London: Collier Books / Collier Macmillan
Publishers, 1967. fig. p. 66f.
-Erich Salomon. "Mit Frack und Linse durch Politik und Gesellschaft". Photographien
1928-1938. Ed.: Janos Frecot für die Berlinische Galerie. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2004.
fig. p. 105 (There titled and dated: Aristide Briand pointing at Erich Salomon and crying
out: "Ah - le voilà! Le roi des indiscrets!" Paris, August 1931).