Photographs from the Private Collection of Margaret W. Weston

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Lot 93
  • 93

Eugène Atget 1857-1927

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Eugene Atget
  • 'TRIANON, BUFFET' (LION)
albumen print, mounted, titled and numbered '1209' in an unidentified hand in blue pencil and with the 'Photo E. Atget, Collection Berenice Abbott, 1 W. 67th St.' stamp on the reverse, matted, framed, 1923

Provenance

Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above, 1981

Exhibited

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Literature

Atget’s Vision (Chicago, Edwynn Houk Gallery, 1981, in conjunction with the exhibition), unpaginated (this print)

Catalogue Note

The lion pictured here is one of two that flank the sculpted figures of Neptune and Amphitrite on the fountain Buffet d'Eau in the gardens of the Trianon at Versailles.  Eugène Atget took his first photographs at Versailles in 1901, and returned frequently to the palaces and gardens until shortly before his death in 1926.  In Atget's twenty-year study of Versailles, he returned again and again to the sculptures and fountains in the expansive gardens.  The stamp on the back of the photograph offered here indicates that it was once in the personal collection of the photographer Berenice Abbott, the key proponent of Atget's work after his death.