Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927)

Tirage albuminé. Au verso, titré Auberge du Compas d'or, 64 Rue Montorgueil et numéroté 5005 au crayon par le photographe. Avec le tampon du photographe au verso.

De l'artiste
Collection privée francaise

John Szarkowski/ Maria Morris Hambourg, The Work of Atget, vol.II, Old Paris, New York, the Museum of Modern Art/ London, The Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1982, ill. fig. 34;
Atget. Paris, Paris, Hazan, 1992, ill. p. 139.

On a scale of ten the tonality of this print would be nine. It is in good general condition. With one strong fold of approx. 6 cm going from the centre of upper edge towards the left into the image. Atget's annotations on the reverse are pressing through slightly and are visible on the recto in raking light.
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"Around 1920, Atget created the core of an album of Old Parisian courtyards by culling examples from his prewar work. By that time several of the yards depicted no longer existed, or obviously were fated to soon disappear - for instance, the terminus and yard for coaches to Creil and Dreux behind the sixteenth-century Inn of the Golden Compass." (The Work of Atget, Vol. II, p. 177)