Walker Evans - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
  • “While there were fascinating intellectual and artistic reasons for making photographs like a spy on the subway, it was clear that it was the opposite of the labour intensive, large format photography Evans had mastered in the previous years.  The subway experiment would sacrifice labour and control for automatism and chance.”
    —David Campany

    • Condition Report

    • Description

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    • Provenance

      Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 2000

    • Literature

      Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, p. xvi (for stamp)

90

Subway Portrait

1939
Gelatin silver print, printed 1960s.
6 7/8 x 10 1/8 in. (17.5 x 25.7 cm)
Credit stamp (Keller stamp B) on the verso.

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Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024