拍品 139
  • 139

EUGÈNE ATGET | St. Cloud (Arbre)

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10,000 - 15,000 USD
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描述

  • Eugène Atget
  • St. Cloud (Arbre)
  • 6 3/4  by 8 3/4  in. (17.1 by 22.2 cm.)
matte albumen print, numbered '1233' in the negative, mounted, 'Photo E. Atget / Collection Berenice Abbott / 1 W. 67th St.' and copyright stamps on the reverse, 1924

來源

Collection of Erhard Weyhe By descent to the present owners

Condition

Grading this albumen print on a scale of 1 to 10 - a 10 being a print that has very rich, deep dark tones and highlights that retain all their original detail - this print rates a strong 8. This print has saturated tones in the darkest areas and delivers exceptional detail in the bark of the tree, the moss and soil at its roots, and the vines of ivy. The highlights are bright and the delineation of the trees in the background is overall fairly light. This photograph is in generally excellent condition. There is a tiny faint opaque deposit of indeterminate nature in the upper right quadrant. It is mounted to thin board. The edges of the mount are slightly worn and faintly soiled, and the right corners are creased. On the reverse of the mount, there is ever-so-faint offsetting of another image. There is a yellowed tape remnant along the upper edge. '1233' is written in ink on the reverse and 'F/3' and '3/2' are written in pencil, all in an unidentified hand on the reverse.
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拍品資料及來源

The photograph in this and the following lot come originally from the collection of New York art dealer and publisher Erhard Weyhe (1882-1972), whose eponymous gallery and bookshop at 794 Lexington Avenue promoted not only prints and art books, but also photography.  In 1930, Weyhe published Atget: photographe de Paris, the first monograph devoted to the French photographer, comprised of 96 images and simultaneously published in New York, Paris, and Leipzig.  It is likely that the photographer was brought to Weyhe’s attention by Julien Levy, then an apprentice under Carl Zigrosser, director at the Weyhe Gallery.  Levy had met Atget in Paris shortly before the photographer’s death and became a financial partner with Berenice Abbott in acquiring a substantial part of Atget’s archive of prints and negatives.  In November 1930, Levy and Abbott organized an exhibition of ‘primed and mounted specimens’ of Atget’s photographs at Weyhe Gallery (Levy to Mina Loy, 31 July 1930, quoted in Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery, p. 30).