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 43. Parc de Saint-Cloud (horizontal fountain).

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

Eugène Atget

Parc de Saint-Cloud (horizontal fountain)

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 (horizontal fountain)


printing-out-paper print, partially numbered '64' in the negative, titled and numbered '6499' in pencil and with the photographer's Rue Campagne-Première studio stamp, annotated '17 bis' in pencil, on the reverse

image: 7 by 8¾ in. (17.8 by 22.2 cm.)

Executed in 1904.

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

Hans Georg Puttnies, Atget (Köln: Galerie Rudolf Kicken, 1980), pp. 21 and 47, pl. 42

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Photography as Printmaking, March - May 1968 (another print exhibited)