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

La Tour d'Argent, 18 rue Saint-Germain-de-l'Auxerrois

No reserve

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

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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

La Tour d'Argent, 18 rue Saint-Germain-de-l'Auxerrois


albumen print, on a modern mount, the 'Eugene Atget Photograph / Collection Berenice Abbott' stamp, and with title and negative number '4483' in pencil on the reverse

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

Executed in 1902.

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

Laure Beaumont-Maillet, Atget Paris (Corte Madera, 1993), p. 63