In the Studio of Paolo Roversi

In the Studio of Paolo Roversi

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From the Collection of Paolo and Laetitia Roversi

Walker Evans

Penny picture display, Birmingham, 1936

Lot Closed

July 9, 01:02 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

From the Collection of Paolo and Laetitia Roversi

Walker Evans

1903 - 1975

Penny picture display, Birmingham, 1936


silver print, printed later

signed and numbered '36/75' in pencil on board

edition of 75

this work is sold framed


print/tirage: 32,6 x 26,3 cm; 11 3/4 x 9 1/8 in.

frame/cadre: 52 x 39,7 cm; 20 1/2 x 15 5/8 in.


[tirage argentique tardif

signé et numéroté '36/75' au crayon sur le carton

édition de 75

ce tirage est vendu encadré]

Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
John T. Hill. Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary. Göttingen 2006, ill. p. 121.
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans, American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part I, pl. 2.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 127.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work: 747 Photographs together with Documents Selected from Letters, Memoranda, Interviews, Notes, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 239.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 135.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 517, p. 161.
Leslie George Katz, Walker Evans: Incognito, Eakins Press Foundation, New York, 1995, n.p.
Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans: A Biography, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1995, n.p. Andrei Codrescu, Walker Evans Signs, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 42.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1999, p. 299.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 66.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 194, pl. 205, p. 175.
Da Capo Press, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938, pl. 229
Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, p. 117
Walker Evans, ed. by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in collaboration with Princeton University Press, Princeton, New York 2000, ill. 73 (detail)