Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Weegee
Audience in the Palace Theatre
Lot Closed
July 16, 05:56 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Weegee
1899 - 1968
Audience in the Palace Theatre
the photographer's credit and 'Weegee the Famous' stamps (on the reverse)
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
7⅛ by 9⅛ in.
18.1 by 23.2 cm.
Executed circa 1950.
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 Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com
Louis Stettner
Private Collection
James Danziger Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Miles Barth, ed., Weegee’s World, New York: International Center of Photography, 1997, p. 216, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Judith Keller, In Focus Weegee: Photographs from The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005, pl. 30, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, pp. 203 and 420
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