Sale 1400
New York
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12 November 2003
Price realised
USD 31,070
Estimate
WALKER EVANS Posed Portraits, New York Gelatin silver print. 1931. Credit by Miller, credit, titled, dated and annotated Repr. MoMA 1938 pg 89 in an unknown hand in pencil on the reverse of the flush-mount. 8 x 6in. (20.3 x 15.2cm.)
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Literature
Hound and Horn, April-June, 1933 (variant); The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Evans: American Photographs, (1938 edition), Part I, pl. 40; and Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, p. 48, pl. 169.
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