Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Helen Levitt
New York City (Mother and Child on Street with Open Fire Hydrant)
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October 21, 06:44 PM GMT
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12,000 - 18,000 USD
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8,500 USD
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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Helen Levitt
1913 - 2009
New York City (Mother and Child on Street with Open Fire Hydrant)
typed Museum of Modern Art Collection labels and a Photography Department Study Collection stamp (on the reverse)
gelatin silver print, flush-mounted to Masonite with inked edges
8¾ by 13⅛ in.
22.2 by 33.3 cm.
Executed in 1939, printed no later than 1949.
Gift of the photographer in 1949 to the present owner
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange, Tana Hoban, Esther Bubley, and Hazel-Frieda Larsen [Six Women Photographers or 6 Women Photographers], October - November 1949
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary American Photography, 1953-56
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 70 Photographers Look at New York, November 1957 - April 1958
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Photographs from the Museum Collection, November 1958 - January 1959
Helen Levitt, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991, pl. 36, illustrated
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