Helen Levitt - Important Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana New York Tuesday, April 2, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist
    Robert Klein Gallery, Boston

  • Exhibited

    Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2 February - 27 April 2008

  • Literature

    Aperture, Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art, p. 175
    deCordova, Presumed Innocence,pl. 88
    Laurence Miller Gallery, Helen Levitt: A Memorial Tribute, p. 16
    powerHouse Books, Helen Levitt: Crosstown, p. 81
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Helen Levitt, pl. 8
    Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs,p. 139

    Oxford History of Art, The Photograph, pl. 52
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New Vision: Photography Between the World Wars, Ford Motor Company Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, pl. 28

  • Catalogue Essay

    “If it were easy to talk about [my photographs] I'd be a writer. Since I'm inarticulate, I express myself with images.”
    HELEN LEVITT


    Other prints of this image are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester.

IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA

27

N.Y.C.

1939
Gelatin silver print.
6 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (15.9 x 21 cm)
Signed twice, titled and dated in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$30,000 - 50,000 

Sold for $37,500

Contact Specialist
Vanessa Kramer Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs
vhallett@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1245

Important Photographs from the Collection of Dr. Anthony Terrana

2 & 3 April 2013
New York