The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art

The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's Collection

Eugène Atget

Jardins du château de Versailles

No reserve

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's Collection

Eugène Atget

1857 - 1927

Jardins du château de Versailles


printing-out-paper print, numbered '6075' in the negative, titled and numbered '6075' in pencil and with the photographer's Rue Campagne-Première studio stamp, annotated with '17 bis' in pencil, on the reverse

image: 6¾ by 8½ in. (17.1 by 21.6 cm.)

Executed in 1901.

Abbott-Levy Collection

Acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden and Family of Man Fund, 1968

John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg, The Work of Atget, vol. III: The Ancien Regime (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981), p. 47, pl. 11

Roxana Marcoci, ed., The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010), p #?

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Atget, December 1969 - March 1970 (another print exhibited)