LOT DETAILS

Materials:

printing-out-paper print

Measurements:

9.02 in. (22.90 cm.) (height) by 7.13 in. (18.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

numbered '379' in the negative, titled and numbered '379' in pencil and with the photographer's 'Rue Campagne-Première, 17 bis' studio stamp, annotated '17 bis' in pencil, on the reverse

Literature:

La Révolution Surréaliste 7, 15 June 1926, p. 6. The Work of Atget, Volume IV: Modern Times(The Museum of Modern Art, 1985), p. 128, pl. 92. Molly Nesbit,Atget's Seven Albums(New Haven, 1992), p. 132. Laure Beaumont-Maillet,Atget: Paris(Santa Rosa, 1992), p. 586. Gerry Badger,Eugene Atget 55(London, 2001), unpaginated. Peter Barberie,Looking at Atget (Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005), pp. 55 and 94. Franz Roh and Jan Tschichold,FotoAuge(London: Thames and Hudson facsimile reprint of the 1929 original edition, 1977), pl. 1. Edward Lucie-Smith, The Invented Eye: Masterpieces of Photography, 1839-1914 (New York, 1975), pl. 152. Happy Birthday Photography: Bokelberg Sammlung(Kunsthaus Zürich, 1989), pl. 94

Provenance:

The photographer to Tristan Tzara, Paris. By descent to Marie-Therese Tzara. Christie's New York, 29 April 1999, Sale 9150, Lot 168