Couple at Coney Island, New York, 1928

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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Couple at Coney Island, New York, 1928

Price Realised USD 2,750

WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Couple at Coney Island, New York, 1928
gelatin silver print, printed 1969–1970 by James Dow
dated 'DOW 69-70' and variously numbered in pencil (verso)
image: 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (23.5 x 16.5 cm.)
sheet: 10 x 8 in. (25.5 x 20.4 cm.)

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 1839–1989, 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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This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition Walker Evans presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1971.