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
Helen Levitt
New York
Auction Closed
May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Helen Levitt
1918 - 2009
New York
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, dated, and annotated 'N. Y. C.' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1939
image: 7¼ by 8 in. (18.4 by 20.3 cm.)
frame: 18½ by 15½ in. (47 by 39.4 cm.)
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 26 April 2006, Sale 040106, Lot 260, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, as agent
James Agee, Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing (Durham, 2019 edition of the 1963 original), pl. 49
Sandra S. Phillips and Maria Morris Hambourg, Helen Levitt (San Francisco, 1991), p. 44