Walker Evans - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
  • This lot includes the following plates:

     

    From Walker Evans: Selected Photographs

     

    Shoe Shine Sign in Southern Town, 1936, pl. 4

    Main St., Ossining, New York, 1932, pl. 5

    Kitchen Wall, Alabama Farmstead, 1936, pl. 7

    Lunchroom Buddies, New York City, 1931, pl. 10

    Tin False Front Building, Moundville, Alabama, 1936, pl. 12

     

    From Walker Evans

     

    Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935, pl. 11

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    • Description

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    • Provenance

      Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 2000

    • Exhibited

      Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 10 Dec 2013 – 8 June 2014
      American Scene Photography: Martin Z Margulies Collection, Nova Southeastern University, NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, 30 October - 22 March 2015 (select images)
      Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020 (Shoeshine Stand Detail)
      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 (select images)

    • Literature

      NSU Art Museum, American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Fort Lauderdale, exh. cat., 2015, pls. 9, 17
      Evans, American Photographs, pl. 40
      Agee and Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, n.p.
      Abrams, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, p. 45 (variant), p. 103 (detail), p. 169
      De Capo Press, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935–1938, pls. 241, 338, 389
      Evans, Walker Evans. New York: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971. p. 103
      Fundación Mapfre, Walker Evans, exh. cat., p. 30
      Galassi, Robert Frank: In America, p. 33
      Hambourg and Rosenheim, Walker Evans. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, cover and pls. 14, 16, 23, 80, 101
      Harper & Row, Walker Evans: First and Last, p. 60
      Hill, Walker Evans at Work, p. 129
      Hill, Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary, p. 197
      Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, pls. 169, 529, 561, 459
      Mora, The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies, p. 38
      Mora and Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, pl. 209
      Walker Evans: American Photographs, pl. 40
      Phaidon, Walker Evans: 55, pp. 83, 59 (detail)
      Rosenheim, et al, Walker Evans, pl. 101
      Scalo, Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology, n.p.
      Szarkowski, Walker Evans, p. 100
      The Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Evans: Leaving Things as They Are, pl. 17
      The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans & Company, various plates
      Each citation for various prints

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Selected Images

1931-1936
Six gelatin silver prints, five from Walker Evans: Selected Photographs, printed 1974, and one from Walker Evans, printed 1971.
Varying sizes from 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (16.5 x 24.8 cm) to 9 1/2 x 13 in. (24.1 x 33 cm.)
Five signed and numbered 'A/P' or '7/75,' and one signed, dated and numbered 'XI 59/100,' in pencil on the mount.

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Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024