Posted on December 3, 2023
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From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Jerry Lewis, actor, Paris, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed
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Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Warsaw, Poland. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ¾ by 6 ⅛ on 9 ⅜ by 6 ½”, signed , stamped, titled

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ½ by 5 ⅞ on 9 ½ by 7, signed, labeled

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. “Dracula – massacre, mayhem, murder, rape and seduction… favorite themes of cheap cinemas, that dotted the Pigalle area of Paris, 1963.”(H.C) Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 on 9 ½ by 7”, signed

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series,1960 to 1970’s, The Face, Paris. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅞ by 9 ⅞”, signed

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Boulevard St. Michel, Paris 1963 Silver Gelatin Print, Size 15 ⅝ by 10 ¾”, signed, dated

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, ‘Day Dreaming’, Paris. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ⅝ by 6 ¼ on 12 by 9 ⅜”, signed
This was the last edition of our 24 chapter long online retrospective about the oeuvre of Harold Chapman. We hope you enjoyed our selection and appreciate your interest. Please contact us, if you have any questions, like to see more or want to acquire work of Harold Chapman.
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Posted on November 27, 2023
Harold Chapman Earls Court, London 1962, Black Market, “Dope Dealer with Cigarettes and Cannabis in her basket”. (H.C) Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 36×49,5cm, signed, titled, dated
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Harold Chapman
Caffeine Man on the Go. Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 5.5”, signed, stamped, titled

Harold Chapman The English Cup of Tea, East End London, 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 by 10”, signed, stamped, titled, labeled

Harold Chapman
Common Market Vote ‘NO’ poster, June 1975, Tufnell Park, London. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ¼ by 5 ⅝”, signed , stamped, titled

Harold Chapman
Market in the Gorbals Slums, Glasgow, Scotland, 1960’s. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ⅜ by 10 ⅛”, signed, stamped, titled, labeled

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, “Somewhere over the rainbow“ (H.C), London,England 1973 Silver Gelatin Print, Size 10 by 7”, signed, titled, stamped

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6 on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed

Harold Chapman
White and Black in the City of London, 1964. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ⅛ by 10”, signed, titled, stamped
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Posted on November 4, 2023
Harold Chapman
Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s – “The Land, That Time Forgot”, London 1974. Ladders to the Lost World. A titillating monster-and-mayhem movie. Giant publicity posters erected by workers. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 5 3/4 on 9 3/8 by 6 7/8″, signed.
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Harold Chapman
Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s – A distracting climb. Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 5 3/4 on 9 3/8 by 6 7/8″, signed.

Harold Chapman
Billboard Series, 1960-1970’s – Elysee 68, Naked models, Sexy Girls, Transvestites… This lady seems to think, they stink… Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9 on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed

Harold Chapman Flea Market – The Painting, Paris 1962. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 34×49,5cm, signed, stamped, titled, dated

Harold Chapman Flea Market – Doll Truck, Paris 1960-s. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 33×49.5cm, signed, stamped

Harold Chapman Flea Market – The Wish, Porte de Montreuil, Paris 1963. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 37,5x49cm, signed, stamped, titled and dated
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Posted on October 22, 2023
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Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960’s and 70’s. Gossiping housewives awaiting a train in the METRO GALLERY OF EVER CHANGING ART AND DESIGN: “PERFECT…WITH FRESH EGGS…” Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 5 ⅞ by 9” on 9 ⅜ by 12”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 81
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Saint-Yorre I adore you…Health, beauty and gaiety – not much of this as two nuns rummage through their shopping in a murky Metro station. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅛ by 9 ⅛ on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ½ by 11”, signed, stamped

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, near ‘Les Halles’, Paris 1969, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9 on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅛ by 9 ⅛ on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, ‘Bangkok Violence’,(Movie Poster advertises the action/spy movie ‘Shadow of Evil’), on Boulevard es Italiens, Paris 1964, Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 ⅜ by 8 ⅝ on 9 ⅜ by 12”, signed

Harold Chapman
From the Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. The lure of Paris”…and me”. Sailors on leave pass the parade of fashion posters. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 10 ½ by 15 ½”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 98
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Posted on October 19, 2023
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From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. London. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 by 9¼”, signed, labeled
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 5 ⅛”, signed, stamped, labeled

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, 1968 – 1970. Nun passing a hosiery advertising on Blvd. Saint Germain, Paris 1968. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 10 ½ by 15 ½, signed, dated

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris, 1965 – 1967. Drip Dry Hands, Paris 1963. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 15 by 10”, signed, dated

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris. At the launch of a new French brown bottled beer, Pelforth ’43’ giant bottles were installed as an advertising stunt in several metro stations in Paris. This zonked out lad finds the beer bottle makes a comfortable corner for an afternoon nap. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 15 by 10”, signed, dated.

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Paris 1965 – 67. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 12 ½ by 8 ¾ on 15 ¾ by 11 ½”, signed, dated

Harold Chapman From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, ‘Bread for the World‘ Campaign 1960-s. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 26,3x37cm, signed, stamped

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. The rue Mouffetard, one of Paris ‘ poorest streets. An old lady off to market in her carpet slippers shuffles past a keyhole revealing a girdled nymphet in high heels. Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 8 ⅞ by 5 ¾” on 93/8 by 6 ⅜”, signed
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Posted on October 12, 2023
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Harold Chapman
Défense d’Afficher, rue Gît-le-Coeur: “Posting forbidden” and chained to the railing, a wheel –
all that remains of a dismembered bicycle.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 4 ¼” on 7 by 5”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 88
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01

Harold Chapman
A Lambretta parked by a paper beach scene, pasted on wooden walls screening the disorder
of a building site..
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 6 ½” on 11 ⅛ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 19

Harold Chapman
May 1968 Paris Students, protest movement poster. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9by 5 ⅞ on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed, dated

Harold Chapman
Pigalle, a B-Movie paradise: cheap cinemas showing Egyptian mummies risen from the dead, ravished ladies, and every kind of titillating mayhem and horror. Paris 1960’s.
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 5 ⅞” on 9 ⅜ by 7by 9 ⅜”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 93

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s. Mail bags laying around near post office on rue L’Eperon, Paris 1964 Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6”, signed

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, France. Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6 on 9 ½ by 7”, signed

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series_1960 to 1970’s, Drowning in rubbish. Poster of Royal Automobile Club, England Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed
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Posted on October 2, 2023
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Harold Chapman
Drip-Dry hands: A priest stands unknowingly in front of a movie poster. Pontius Pilate washes his hands of responsibility behind the priest’s back. From Billboard series 1960″s to 1970″s, Paris.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard), Size 9 ¼ by 14”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 92
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01

Harold Chapman
Les Halles Market had its own police, who were responsible for law and order in the market. They had their own cap badge with “H.C.” on it, for ‘Halles Centrales’. Numerous orders of nuns in their distinctive habits shaped for their convents every night. Paris 1960’s.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 8 ⅞ on 9 ⅜ by 12”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 14

Harold Chapman
A nun and two priests meditating in the Montparnasse Métro station.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 by 8” on 9 ⅜ by 11 ½, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 14

Harold Chapman
Confession: A nun hurrying to confess unmentionable sins at early morning mass in Notre-Dame. The rising sun casts long shadows like accusing fingers across the pavement.
Modern Giclee, Quad-tone Inkjet Print on Archival cotton rag paper, ED #3/12, 11 ¾ by 7 ⅝”
on ~ 16 ½ by 10 ¼, signed in pencil on retro. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 16

Harold Chapman
Paris, Sacre Cœur, 1962 – Priests descending after morning mass.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 20 by 12″, signed, stamped, titled, dated
(additional hand written Text by Claire Parry: Les petits cures, qui portent du bureau)

Harold Chapman
Versailles, France – Nuns take a Sunday walk in the park. Winter 1964.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted) 12 1/2 by 19 1/2″, signed, dated, titled, stamped
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Posted on September 28, 2023
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Harold Chapman
‘Legalize Pot Rally”, London Hyde Park, 1968 Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), size 4 ⅞ by 7 ½ ” on 7 by 9 ½”
Signed, titled, dated, stamped and labeled
Please find a brief introduction about the retrospective at part 01

Harold Chapman
Legalize pot Rally, Hyde Park, London, 1968
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ¼ by 10 on 8 ½ by 10 ½”, signed, titled, dated, stamped, labeled

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, England
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 by 6 ½”, signed , stamped, titled

Harold Chapman
Alf Garnett Billboard 1973, From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, England
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 by 6 ¼”, signed, stamped, dated

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, England
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9”, signed, stamped, titled

Harold Chapman
Fashion, Carnaby St, Two Tone Trousers, London 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ¾ by 6”, signed, stamped, labeled, titled, dated
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Posted on September 23, 2023
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Harold Chapman From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, Oxford Street, London Silver Gelatin Print, Size 19 by 14 ½”, signed, titled
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Harold Chapman
Early morning rush hour.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard), Size 12 ½ by 10 ⅜”, signed on verso Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 78

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, Kings Road, Boutique: “Granny takes a Trip” 1960’s Silver Gelatin Print, Size 8 ½ by 6 ½ on 9 ½ by 7”, signed, titled, labeled, dated

Harold Chapman
The Secret Agent: who was the sinister character in a trilby hat and a long trench coat with his hand in his pocket, standing anxiously for hours, frequently looking at his watch in front of a pair of gigantic breasts encased in the latest example of Triumph’s uplift engineering … (HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ¼ by 8 ½” on 9 ⅜ by 11 3/4”, signed Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 79

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London. “A railway porter passes a theater poster advertising a play: No Sex, please, we’re British.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅛ by 6 on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed

Harold Chapman
“Revolutions: A petrol powered bicycle, the Solex, immobile, beneath a destroyed Che Guevara.”(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print Resin, Size 8 ⅞ by 5 ⅞ on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 91
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Posted on September 22, 2023
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Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, London, England: Sinners Silver Gelatin Print, Size 7 ⅛ by 9 ⅜, signed, stamped, titled
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Harold Chapman
“Teenager Derrie Thomas on bed with her Beatles Poster”, London, November 22, 1963, United Kingdom
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 10 by 7 ¾”, signed, stamped, labeled, titled

Harold Chapman
‘Brings Out the Best…From Billboard Series England, 1960 to 1970’s
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 6 by 9 on 7 by 10”, signed

Harold Chapman
“Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg in Lee Forest’s room at the Hôtel de Londres, shortly before Orlovsky left Paris in January 1957 for the USA.” Paris, December 1956.
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 4 ¼ by 6” on 5 by 7”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, page 53 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 16 (top)

Harold Chapman
“William Burroughs and his shuffler baskets, which he used to create instant cut-ups from randomly placed manuscripts. Whilst in the Hotel, Burroughs worked on several novels, including ‘Naked Lunch’, in room 15 and ‘Soft Machine’. (HC) , Paris, Beat Hotel, 1961
Silver Gelatin Print (resin), Size 10 ⅝ by 15 ½” on 12 by 16”, signed on verso
Published in Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, Title image and page 122/123 and Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris – 1957 to 1963, page 49

Harold Chapman
“Mugshot. A couple of future candidates for a cancer clinic: Adoring kids, fascinated by this surely tough guy gangster movie poster.” (HC) From Billboard Series , 1960 to 1970’s, France
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), size 9 by 6 ” on 9 3/8 by 7″, signed, labeled
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Posted on September 21, 2023
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Harold Chapman
“Take away chicken from Les Halles. The image was published as Christmas card with the enigmatic words: My father used to be a pirate.”(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 8 ¾ by 12 ¾ on 12 by 16”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 – 1963, page 113
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Harold Chapman
Les Halles Series “Meat express: finishing the night’s work, a butcher makes a frantic dash with a blood stained wagon to catch the last lorry.“(HC) Paris, Les Halles, 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 10 ⅞ by 14 ¾”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 – 1963, page 111

Harold Chapman
From the Billboard Series: “A cheap ticket for the Métro: a little-used line provided peace and calm for housewives to meet up for a quiet gossip, do some knitting, and escape from the drudgery of housework.”(HC) Paris, 1960’s
Silver Gelatin Print (resin), Size 6 by 9” on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 – 1963, page 99

Harold Chapman “Teddy Boys – Three Lads, York”, (HC) UK, 1958
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber mounted on cardboard) 19 1/2 x 17″, signed, titled, dated, stamped

Harold Chapman
“Apple Apples, Beatlemania”, (HC) London, England 1967
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 4 ⅞ by 7 ¼ on 7 by 9 ⅜”, signed, stamped, titled, labeled

Harold Chapman
From Billboard Series 1960 to 1970’s, England
“The traditional way of eating Britains national dish is out of newspaper while lounging on street corner” (HC) here in Thorpe Willoughby, Yorkshire, UK
Silver Gelatin Print, Size 9 ⅝ by 8 ¼”, signed, stamped plus text
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Posted on September 20, 2023
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Harold Chapman
The hand on the door: Evil spirits do not enter! (HC) Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 9 by 6 ½” on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris, 1957 – 1963, page 123
Part 01 (Courtesy of R. Goellnitz and R. Madera Goellnitz, ©Photos by Harold Chapman ©Text by the Authors
25 Years ago, in 1998, Harold Chapman’s work appeared in the thirtieth-anniversary issue of Creative Camera, a leading British photographic magazine, to which he had contributed thirty years previously in the first issue. Interviewed in December 1968, Chapman had declared: “…there is no need for the contrived shot. Pictures are everywhere. So why set up a photograph when the natural one is infinitely better?” He added: “I am photographing for the future, not for the present… All I aim for is to record the trivial things that ordinary people use and consider unimportant.”
Harold Chapman wanted to leave visual proof for subsequent generations, who without it could not imagine, what had come before.
“The photographs, regardless of Chapman’s goal to merely document, are astounding, both in subject matter and composition, with the imagery ranging from moody portraiture of the famous and their dingy, single-bed rooms to street scenes featuring disparate juxtapositions of people and background advertisements.”(OC Weekly 4/2012)
In April 2000, Booker Prize-winning British novelist, Ian McEwan, who had met Harold Chapman in 1974, wrote an article about the photographer entitled ‘A Spy in the Name of Art’, which was published in the Saturday Review of the Guardian. Summing up Harold Chapman’s work, he concluded: “If Chapman were merely a chronicler in a great documentary tradition, his achievement would be impressive enough. His lustrous landscapes of the Herault valley in the Languedoc, his priceless record of the Beat Hotel, his omnivorous, year-on-year transcription of daily life and its little undercurrents, would ensure his reputation as a photographer of the first rank. But it was constructive paranoia that made him an artist.”
We appreciate your interest in the work of Harold Chapman and encourage you to contact us, if you have any questions.
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Harold Chapman
“Stolen kisses, rue de Buci, Paris, 1960’s. Standing outside a café, the boys dare each to steal a kiss from passing girls.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 6 by 9” on 6 ⅞ by 9 ⅜”, signed on verso Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 15

Harold Chapman
“1957, December Paris in the rain: Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg on a double-sided bench, Place Saint-German-des-Prés.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 13 ¾ by 19 ¾”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 36 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 15

Harold Chapman
“William Burroughs’ anonymous grey trilby. 1961.“(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Fiber), Size 6 ⅛ by 4 ¼” on 5×7”, signed on verso. Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 48 and Harold Chapman – The Beat Hotel, page 124

Harold Chapman
From the Billboard Series: “Love on the Left Bank, Giant posters were assembled in sections on wooden panels. Sections, which had no particular meaning, were frequently left standing in side streets for days. Paris 1960’s.“(HC)
Quadtone Inkjet Giclee Print on Archival Cotton Fiber Paper, Size 8 ½” by 11 ¾ on 11 ¾ by 16 ½”, Size ????”, signed on retro, numbered 4/12
Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 77

Harold Chapman
“An idle broom leans on peeling posters. Moshe Dayan, the eye patched smiling general who swept to victory in the sands of the ‘Six Day War’, shares a wall with pop-art idol Andy Warhol. Paris 1960’s.”(HC)
Silver Gelatin Print (Resin), Size 9 by 6” on 9 ⅜ by 7”, signed on verso.
Published in Harold Chapman – Beats A Paris 1957 -1963, page 89
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