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Lot 20

Walker Evans
(1903-1975)
Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans

28 April – 12 May 2020, 14:00 EDT
Online, New York

US$10,000 - US$15,000

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Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Sidewalk and Shopfront, New Orleans, 1935
Gelatin silver print, printed early 1973, annotation 'Print for Walker Evans at his request by Jerry L. Thompson early 1973. Test enlargement for exhibition at the Robert Schoelkopf Gallery. Printed on Saltzman 8 x 10 enlarger at Yale School of Art on Agfa Portriga Paper by Jerry L. Thompson' in pencil on the verso.
13 1/4 x 10 3/8in (33.6 x 26.3cm)
sheet 14 x 11 1/4in (35.5 x 28.5cm)

Footnotes

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist

Literature
Walker Evans: American Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, New York/ Harry N. Abrams, 50th Anniversary Edition, 1988, pl. 5; Thompson, The Last Years of Walker Evans, Thames and Hudson, 1995

Exhibited
Walker Evans: Labor Anonymous, Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, 2015, and two other European venues

At Walker Evans' request, this photograph was printed by Jerry Thompson as a test for an impromptu exhibition of Evans' work at Robert Schoelkopf Gallery in New York from April 21 to May 17, 1973. The show was arranged so that Evans could recoup some of the costs he had incurred during a recent illness when he had been unable to work. Thompson describes this intense period of printing for Evans in his book, (op. cit., p. 64.)

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