Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Helen Levitt
New York City
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Helen Levitt
1918 - 2009
New York City
gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, circa 1940, probably printed circa 1955
image: 6¼ by 9¼ in. (15.9 by 23.5 cm.)
frame: 16¾by 20¾in. (42.5 by 52.7 cm.)
James Agee, Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing (Durham, 1989), pl. 14
Sandra S. Phillips and Maria Morris Hambourg, Helen Levitt (San Francisco, 1991), cover and no. 14
Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), pl. 654
Crosstown: Photographs by Helen Levitt (Brooklyn, 2001), p. 74
Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (New York: Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 35 and 228
Helen Levitt (Vienna: The Albertina Museum, 2020), pp. 152-3