Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Helen Levitt
New York
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April 10, 04:21 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Helen Levitt
1913 - 2009
New York
gelatin silver print, signed, dated 'N.Y. ca. 1940' and annotated '1 of 2' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse
image: 9⅞ by 6¾ in. (25.1 by 17.1 cm.)
frame: 21¾ by 17¾ in. (55.2 by 45.1 cm.)
Executed circa 1940.
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Sandra S. Phillips and Maria Morris Hambourg, Helen Levitt (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1991), p. 29
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection (New York, 2021), pp. 336 and 416
