WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Lot 153
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Lot 153 | WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
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$ 15 000 – 25 000
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Subway Portrait, New York, 1941

gelatin silver print

numbered 'VI 40' in Harry Lunn archive stamp (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed Sir Elton John Photography collection label (frame backing board)

image: 5 x 7 5⁄8in. (12.9 x 19.3 cm.)

sheet: 9 x 10 in. (22.8 x 25.4 cm.)





Provenance

Christie's, New York, October 17, 2007, lot 18;

acquired from the above sale by the present owner.



Literature

Walker Evans, Many Are Called, Houghton Mifflin, 1966, pl. 21;

Sarah Greenough, Walker Evans: Subways and Streets, The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1991, pl. 45, p. 92.

Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1995, cat. nos. 637-638, pp. 200-201.
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