Lot 11
  • 11

Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927)

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 EUR
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Description

  • Eugène Atget
  • Notre Dame, 1923
  • photograph on paper
Tirage albuminé mat (arrowroot). Avec le numéro du négatif inversé 64, partiellement visible en bas à gauche. Au verso, le tampon du photographe auquel est ajouté 17 bis au crayon par le photographe, et titré Notre Dame et numéroté 6412 au crayon par le photographe.

Arrowroot print. With the inverted, cropped negative number 64 in the lower left corner of the image. On the reverse, with the photographer's stamp to which is added 17 bis in pencil by the photographer, titled Notre Dame and numbered 6412 in pencil by the photographer.

Literature

Sotheby's New York, Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, 25 Avril 2001, lot 12 (variante).

Condition

This print is in very good condition. Very dark brown tones and strong contrasts. With very light superficial abrasion mainly in the left part of the image and partially at the edges. With a very light handling crease in the lower left quadrant which is only visible on the reverse of the print. With two remnants of paper tape from an earlier mount at the upper edge on the reverse.
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Catalogue Note

Une prise de vue très semblable, portant le numéro du négatif 6413, fut vendue chez Sotheby's à New York en Avril 2002 (Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, 25 Avril 2001, lot 12).