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2052R

Walker Evans

St. Louis, Missouri 1903 – 1975 New Haven, Connecticut

Untitled (hand). Circa 1929

Vintage. Gelatin silver print, photogram. 27,6 x 17,8 cm (10 ⅞ x 7 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Walker Evans. Untitled (hand). Circa 1929.

Estimate:

EUR 10,000

 

- 15,000

USD 10,800

 

- 16,200

Sold for:

12,500 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 237-246

Modern and Contemporary Photographs, Wednesday, 03.06.2015

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print, photogram. 27,6 x 17,8 cm (10 ⅞ x 7 in.). On the reverse the stamp of Lunn Gallery and collection label of the Warren J. Coville Collection (with printed work information), also numbered in pencil by various persons. On the accompanying frame back panel two collection labels of the Buhl Collection, a copy of the collection label of the Warren J. Coville Collection, and exhibition labels from the James Danziger Gallery, New York and the Guggenheim Museum, New York (each with printed work information). Right edge unevenly trimmed. With light oxidation mottling.

Formerly Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago; collection Warren and Margot Coville, Bloomfeld Hills, Michigan; 1987 to the James Danziger Gallery, New York; 1997 to the Henry Buhl collection, New York

James Danziger Gallery, New York, American Century: Photographs and Visions 1900–1935, 1997
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Speaking with Hands – Photographs from the Buhl Collection, June – September 2004 Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

James Danziger, American Century: Photographs and Visions, 1900–1935, James Danziger Gallery, 1997, pl. 43
James Danziger, American Photographs 1900/2000, New York 1999, pl. 34
Speaking with Hands, Photographs from The Buhl Collection, ed. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York 2004, p. 132 and p. 214

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