Helen Levitt
New York City
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Helen Levitt
1918 - 2009
New York City
gelatin silver print, signed, dated, and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, circa 1940, probably printed circa 1955
image: 6¼ by 9¼ in. (15.9 by 23.5 cm.)
frame: 16¾by 20¾in. (42.5 by 52.7 cm.)
James Agee, Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing (Durham, 1989), pl. 14
Sandra S. Phillips and Maria Morris Hambourg, Helen Levitt (San Francisco, 1991), cover and no. 14
Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950 (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), pl. 654
Crosstown: Photographs by Helen Levitt (Brooklyn, 2001), p. 74
Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (New York: Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 35 and 228
Helen Levitt (Vienna: The Albertina Museum, 2020), pp. 152-3
