Walker Evans - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips

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  •  “The most characteristic single feature of Evans’ work is purity, or even its puritanism. It is ‘straight’ photography not only in technique but in the rigorous directness of its way of looking.”
    —Lincoln Kirstein

    • Provenance

      Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 2010

    • Exhibited

      American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, 30 October 2014 – 22 March 2015
      Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020
      The Bitter Years: Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, 19 October 2022 – 29 April 2023; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, 8 September 2023 – 14 January 2024

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Roadside Sandwich Shop, Ponchatoula, Louisiana

1936
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
7 1/2 x 9 1/2 in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
Signed in pencil on the verso.

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Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024