Lot 17
Lot 17
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Couple at Coney Island, New York, 1928

Price Realised USD 1,875
Estimate
USD 5,000 - USD 7,000
Closed: 19 Jul 2018
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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Couple at Coney Island, New York, 1928

Price Realised USD 1,875
Closed: 19 Jul 2018
Price Realised USD 1,875
Closed: 19 Jul 2018
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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Couple at Coney Island, New York, 1928
gelatin silver print, printed 1969–1970 by James Dow
variously numbered in pencil (verso)
image: 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 in. (23.4 x 16.2 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 1/8 in. (25.4 x 20.6 cm.)

Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part I, pl. 41.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 11.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 25.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Photography 18391989, The Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 1989, p. 311.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1991, p. 366.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 48.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 102, p. 32.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 124, p. 119.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 17.
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