The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art
The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's Collection
Eugène Atget
Coin du Boulevard de la Chapelle et 76 rue Fleury (18e arr.)
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's Collection
Eugène Atget
1857 - 1927
Coin du Boulevard de la Chapelle et 76 rue Fleury (18e arr.)
matte albumen print, numbered '20' in the negative, mounted, the 'Photo E. Atget / Collection Berenice Abbott / 1 W. 67th St. / Copyright' stamp and with title and numerical notations in pencil on the reverse
image: 6¾ by 9 in. (17.1 by 22.9 cm.)
Executed in 1921.
Abbott-Levy Collection
Acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden and Family of Man Fund, 1968
John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg, The Work of Atget, vol. IV: Modern Times (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981), p. 108, pl. 72
Atget (Alain Paviot, Paris, 1986), pl. 22 and unpaginated
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes, February - April 2012 (another print exhibited)
