Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1900–1990

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Walker Evans

Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York

New York Gantry Point Warehouse

Lot closes

October 21, 06:50 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Starting Bid

4,800 USD

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Lot Details

Description

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program

Walker Evans

1903 - 1975

Main Street, Saratoga Springs, New York

gelatin silver print

8⅛ by 6⅜ in.

20.6 by 19.2 cm.

Executed in 1931, printed in 1971 by James Dow.

Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com.

Acquired from the photographer in 1971 by the present owner

Walker Evans: First and Last, New York 1978, p. 47, illustrated

Tod Papageorge, Walker Evans and Robert Frank: An Essay on Influence, New Haven 1981, p. 12, illustrated

Walker Evans at Work, New York 1982, p. 58, illustrated

Walker Evans: American Photographs, New York 1988, pl. 27, illustrated

Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, New York 1993, pp. 63 and 162, no. 97

Belinda Rathbone, Walker Evans: A Biography, Boston 1995, illustrated

Jerry L. Thompson, The Last Years of Walker Evans, New York 1997, p. 30, illustrated

Kelly Morris and Anna Bloomfield, eds., Walker Evans: Simple Secrets, New York 1998, no. 25, p. 47, illustrated

Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, New York: The Museum of Modern Art 2000, no. 87, p. 93, illustrated

Walker Evans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000, no. 37, illustrated

Christian A. Peterson, Walker Evans: The Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art 2003, no. 16, p. 29, illustrated

Rebecca Roberts, ed., Walker Evans: American Photographs, New York 2019, pl. 27, illustrated