Lot 61
Lot 61
HELEN LEVITT (1913–2009)

Untitled (Graffiti, New York), c. 1939

Price Realised USD 3,750
Estimate
USD 6,000 - USD 8,000
Closed: 14 Oct 2020
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HELEN LEVITT (1913–2009)

Untitled (Graffiti, New York), c. 1939

Price Realised USD 3,750
Closed: 14 Oct 2020
Price Realised USD 3,750
Closed: 14 Oct 2020
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HELEN LEVITT (1913–2009)
Untitled (Graffiti, New York), c. 1939
gelatin silver print
signed, dated and inscribed 'this is my photograph' (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 838 x 512 in (21.3 x 13.9 cm.)
sheet: 878 x 638 in. (22.5 x 16.2 cm.)
Provenance
Collection of Walker Evans;
Collection of Harry Lunn;
Sotheby's, New York, October 13, 2000, lot 162;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
W.M. Hunt, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious, Aperture, New York, 2011, p. 146.
Exhibited
Lausanne, Musée de l'Élysée; Amsterdam, FOAM Fotogafiemuseum, Sans Regard or No Eyes: Photographs from W.M. Hunt / Collection Dancing Bear, 2006-2007.
Ocala, Appelton Museum of Fine Arts, The Unseen Eye: Photography from the Collection of W.M. Hunt, November 7, 2010–January 2, 2011.
Rochester, George Eastman House, The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, October 1, 2011–February 19, 2012.
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