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Helen Levitt

Selected Photographs of New York

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Helen Levitt

1918 - 2009

Selected Photographs of New York


2 gelatin silver prints, each mounted, signed, dated, and annotated 'N. Y.' on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, circa 1938

images: the largest 12¼ by 8¾ in. (31.1 by 22.2 cm.)

frames: each 21 by 17 in. (53.3 by 43.2 cm.)

Collection of the photographer

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2005

James Agee and Helen Levitt, Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing (New York, 1981), p. 3

Helen Levitt and Robert Coles, In the Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, 1938-1948, Photographs by Helen Levitt (Durham, N. C., 1987), pp. 50 and 77