ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898–1995) | ‘Children at a Puppet Theatre’, Paris 1963 | 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.
