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Brassaï

13 September - 4 December 2019

Couple in a Café, near the place d’Italie, c. 1932 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris Couple in a Café, near the place d’Italie, c. 1932 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
View through the pont Royal toward the pont Solférino, c. 1933 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris View through the pont Royal toward the pont Solférino, c. 1933 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
Streetwalker, near Place d’Italie, 1932 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris Streetwalker, near Place d’Italie, 1932 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
On the Boulevard Saint-Jacques, 1930-1932 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris On the Boulevard Saint-Jacques, 1930-1932 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
Henri Matisse with his Model, 1939 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris Henri Matisse with his Model, 1939 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris
Gala Soirée at Maxim’s, May 1949 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris Gala Soirée at Maxim’s, May 1949 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris

Foam is proud to present the first retrospective of Brassaï in the Netherlands. The French photographer of Hungarian descent is considered a key figure of 20th-century photography.


Couple in a Café, near the place d’Italie, c. 1932 © Estate Brassaï Succession, Paris

Brassaï (1899- 1984) created countless iconic images of 1930s Parisian life. He was famous for capturing the grittier aspects of the city, but also documented high society, including the ballet, opera, and intellectuals - among them his friends and contemporaries like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse. The exhibition at Foam traces his career with over 170 vintage prints, plus a selection of drawings, a sculpture and documentary material.

Brassaï gathers many of the artistic facets of the photographer, from photos to drawings of female nudes. It is organized in twelve thematic sections: Paris by Day, and by Night, Minotaure, Graffiti, Society, Places and Things, Personages, Sleep, Pleasures, Body of a Woman, Portraits – Artists, Writers, Friends and The Street. Each is very different from the next – reflecting the diversity of Brassaï’s photographic work.

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Brassaï is organised by Fundación MAPFRE in collaboration with Foam.

Foam is supported by the BankGiro Loterij, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, City of Amsterdam, Foam Members, Olympus and the VandenEnde Foundation.

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