Live Auction 12626Modern Visions: Exceptional Photographs
Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
Lot 17

Eugène Atget (1857-1927)

Notre Dame, 1923

Closed18 February 2016

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USD 75,000

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Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
Notre Dame, 1923
printing-out paper
numbered '6412' (in the negative); photographer's Rue Campagne-Première credit stamp with '17 bis' in pencil, titled, numbered '6412', with annotation 'M.O.M.A. Dupe 2002' and other various annotations in pencil (verso)
image/sheet: 7 x 8 7/8 in. (17.8 x 22.7 cm.)

The Abbott-Levy Collection;
The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
David Tunick Inc., New York, 2002;
with Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York.

Specialist note

The wealth of material in the most beautiful city in the world piled up on his shoulders and left him little time for social life. His Gallic eye scanned the city with objective appraisal, leavened with humor and sensitive awareness. The subjects that excited him were infinite in variety. All were photographic in nature and even the most picturesque subject never became merely pictorial, remotely ‘arty,’ or like a painting. With Atget photography stood on its own feet. His self-confidence was implicit and developed from strength.

Berenice Abbott