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

Eugène Atget

Coin du Boulevard de la Chapelle et 76 rue Fleury (18e arr.)

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April 3, 05:51 PM GMT

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15,000 - 25,000 USD

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6,000 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

Coin du Boulevard de la Chapelle et 76 rue Fleury (18e arr.)


matte albumen print, numbered '20' in the negative, mounted, the 'Photo E. Atget / Collection Berenice Abbott / 1 W. 67th St. / Copyright' stamp and with title and numerical notations in pencil on the reverse

image: 6¾ by 9 in. (17.1 by 22.9 cm.)

Executed in 1921.

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. 108, pl. 72

Atget (Alain Paviot, Paris, 1986), pl. 22 and unpaginated

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Eugène Atget: Documents pour artistes, February - April 2012 (another print exhibited)

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