Lot 131
  • 131

Walker Evans, 1903-1975

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Description

  • Walker Evans
  • Havana Courtyard, 1933, printed before circa 1960
  • 222 by 151mm
Silver Print, the reverse with wetstamp 'Walker Evans' and Lunn Gallery stamp annotated 'II' and '58 V' in pencil,

Literature

Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1995, illustrated pl. 257.
Walker Evans: Cuba, Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001, illustrated pl. 28.

Catalogue Note

The 'Lunn Gallery stamp' was produced, with Evans's approval, by George Rinhart in 1975 as a means of authentication for the large archive of prints in the photographer's studio which Evans was by then too ill to sign.  The key of gallery reference numbers, to which the pencil annotations pertain, was created by Harry H. Lunn and Maurizia Grossman for the Lunn Gallery.
For this print, 'II' refers to MoMA's 1971 Walker Evans exhibition, '58' to the page number for the print in the exhibition catalogue, and 'V' stands for variant of the image in the exhibition.