Helen Levitt - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1998

  • Exhibited

    Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, 10 December 2013 – 8 June 2014
    Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020

  • Literature

    Levitt & Agee, A Way of Seeing, pl. 7
    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
    Aperture, Photography Speaks: 150 Photographers On Their Art, p. 175
    Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, p. 139

92

N.Y.C. (masked children on stoop)

1940
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
7 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (18.1 x 25.7 cm) image
11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm) sheet

Signed, dated and annotated 'N.Y.C.' in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Contact Specialist

Caroline Deck
Senior Specialist, Photographs
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Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Chairwoman, Americas
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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024