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Lot 63
  • 63

Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 EUR
bidding is closed

Description

  • Eugène Atget
  • L'église Saint-Germain-des-Prés, vers la rue de l'abbaye, 1898
Tirage albuminé. Avec le numéro du négatif inversé en bas à droite. Au verso, titré St Germain des Prés et numéroté 3521 par le photographe. Sous passe-partout et encadré.

Provenance

Galerie Rolf Mayer, Stuttgart

Literature

Yvan Christ, Le Paris d'Atget, Paris, Balland, 1971, ill. 44/45;
Laure Beaumont-Maillet, Atget Paris, Paris, Hazan, 2000, ill. p. 489;
Eugène Atget Paris, cat. expo. Fundación Mapfre, Alcobendas, TF Editores / Madrid, Mapfre / Paris, Gallimard, 2011, ill. p. 50.

Condition

This print is in very good general condition. With a few light handling marks mainly in the uper portion of the print and at the centre of the lower edge. With remnants of an earlier mount (dark green card) in the four corners on the reverse, and the spots of adhesive which fixes the print to these remnants is now slightly visible as a "relief" on the recto, not dicoulouring the print. The right edge is irregularly cut.
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