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Eugène Atget
Hôtel Lambert (Île St. Louis)
Estimate
$15,000 - 25,000
Lot Details
1898
Albumen print.
7 x 8 1/2 in. (17.8 x 21.6 cm)
Numbered '6271' in the negative; titled, annotated '6271' in pencil, and Museum of Modern Art deaccession notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
“He told me he was simply preserving carefully the vanishing world that he loved, and keeping an archive of important classified documents. He was a remarkably simple man, extremely modest...he was making a new statement with every picture, transcending the document and creating poetry that outlived his Paris and will outlive us all.” Julien Levy
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