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

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

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 58. Parc de Saint-Cloud (birches).

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

Eugène Atget

Parc de Saint-Cloud (birches)

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 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

Parc de Saint-Cloud (birches)


printing-out-paper print, numbered '1279' in the negative, titled and numbered in pencil and with the photographer's Rue Campagne-Première studio stamp, annotated '17 bis' in pencil, on the reverse

image: 8¾ by 7 in. (22.2 by 17.8 cm.)

Executed in 1926.

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. I: Old France (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981), p. 138, pl. 110

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