Erich Lessing
Austrian, 1923-2018
Affluences in Europe: in France, prosperity immediately translates itself into good food. The variety of cuts of meat sold in the market is staggering: everything from barbecued chickens to calf hearts, from the lushest whole hams to tripe is lovingly displayed in neat rows decorated with green leaves and herbs, a butcher-shop in Paris
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Erich Lessing
Austrian, 1923-20181961
Affluences in Europe: in France, prosperity immediately translates itself into good food. The variety of cuts of meat sold in the market is staggering: everything from barbecued chickens to calf hearts, from the lushest whole hams to tripe is lovingly displayed in neat rows decorated with green leaves and herbs, a butcher-shop in Paris
Erich Lessing Austrian, 1923-2018 →photographyphotograph
Date
1961
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 25.1 × 16.8 cm (9 7/8 × 6 5/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Jill M. Garling and Thomas J. Wilson
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