Lot 202
Lot 202
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935

Price Realised USD 4,750
Estimate
USD 10,000 - USD 15,000
Closed: 11 Apr 2018
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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935

Price Realised USD 4,750
Closed: 11 Apr 2018
Price Realised USD 4,750
Closed: 11 Apr 2018
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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1969 by Charles Rodemeyer
variously numbered in pencil (verso)
image: 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (24.1 x 19 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm.)

Provenance
Gifted by the artist.
Literature
Lincoln Kirstein, Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938, part I, pl. 5.
Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1978, p. 122.
Exhibition catalogue, The Art of Photography 18391989, The Royal Academy of the Arts, London, 1989, pl. 309.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 21.
Sarah Greenough, Walker Evans; Subways and Streets, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991, p. 15.
James R. Mellow, Walker Evans, Basic Books, New York, 1991, p. 236.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 103.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 458, 459, p. 147.
Andrei Codrescu, Walker Evans Signs, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1998, p. 32.
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 193, p. 167.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, cover, pl. 44.
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