Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale

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Helen Levitt

'N. Y. C.' (Two Boys Smoking)

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Helen Levitt

1918 - 2009

'N. Y. C.' (Two Boys Smoking)


gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated and with annotations in pencil on the reverse, framed, 1939

image: 7¼ by 5⅞ in. (18.4 by 14.9 cm.)

frame: 14¾ by 13¼ in. (37.5 by 33.7 cm.)

James Agee, Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing (Durham, 2019 edition of the 1963 original), pl. 17