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

Helen Levitt

N. Y. (Children in a Box)

Lot closes

October 21, 06:47 PM GMT

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 USD

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500 USD

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Description

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

Helen Levitt

1913 - 2009


N. Y. (Children in a Box)

signed, titled N. Y. and dated circa 1945 in pencil (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print

11 by 7½ in.

27.9 by 19.1 cm.

Executed in 1938, printed later. 


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. 

Gift of Janice Loeb Levitt, the photographer’s sister-in-law, in 1984 to the present owner

Helen Levitt, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991, pl. 20, illustrated