LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gelatin silver print

Measurements:

5.51 in. (14.00 cm.) (height) by 7.52 in. (19.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed in pencil and with 'Part One #3 Faces, Pennsylvania Town 1936' and numerical notations in ink and pencil on the secondary mount

Condition:

flush-mounted, mounted again to a sheet of loose-leaf paper

Literature:

Walker Evans, American Photographs(The Museum of Modern Art, 1988 edition), Part One, pl. 3. Gilles Mora and John T. Hill,Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), pp. 137 and 178. Jeff Rosenheim, Maria Morris Hambourg, Douglas Eklund, and Mia Fineman,Walker Evans (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000), pl. 51. Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence (Yale University Art Gallery, 1977), p. 54. David Campany, Walker Evans: The Magazine Work (Göttingen, 2014), p. 25

Provenance:

Christie's New York, 4 October 2001, Sale 9754, Lot 13