Lot 58
  • 58

Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927)

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Eugène Atget
  • Saint-Cloud (cascade), 1923
Vintage silver print. Inversely numbered '1186' in the negative at lower right and upper left. The reverse with the photographer's 'E. Atget Rue Campagne-Première, 17bis' stamp and annotated '17bis, 1186' and 'St Cloud' in pencil.

Provenance

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Literature

Eugène Atget & Lee Friedlander, Parks and Trees, Thomas Zander, Cologne, 2008.

Condition

Some slight discolouration in the left corners, the lower right corner and the centre of the right area of the print. There is a light fold of c. 6cm parallel to the left edge in the middle. Otherwise in very good condition.
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