The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art
The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's Collection
Eugène Atget
Selected Portraits (3 Photographs)
No reserve
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6,000 - 9,000 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
Selected Portraits (3 Photographs)
a group of 3 albumen prints, comprising Réparateur de scies, Joueur de guitare, and Marchand de paniers de fil de fer, each numbered '3220,' '3255' and '3243,' respectively, in pencil and the last stamped 'Reproduction interdite Berenice Abbott 18, Rue Servandoni, 18 Paris 6' on the reverse
images approximately: 8½ by 7 in. (21.6 by 17.8 cm.)
Executed in 1899-1900.
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. IV: Modern Times (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981), p. 53, pl. 17
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Atget, December 1969 - 1970 (another print of Joueur de guitare exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA2000, Modern Starts, Places: French Landscape, The Modernist Vision, 1880-1920, October 1999 - March 2000 (another print of Marchand de paniers de fil de fer exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes, February - April 2012 (another print of Marchand de paniers de fil de fer exhibited)
Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft Museum of Art, Paris to New York: Photographs by Berenice Abbott and Eugène Atget, October 2018 - January 2019 (another print of Joueur de guitare exhibited, loaned from The Museum of Modern Art)
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