Lot 82
Walker Evans(1903-1975)Penny Picture Display, Savannah
4 October 2021, 14:00 EDT
New YorkUS$5,000 - US$7,000
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Walker Evans (1903-1975)
Penny Picture Display, Savannah, 1936
Archival pigment print, printed later, inscribed
'this archival pigment print was made from a high resolution file from Evans' original negative. Printed by John T. Hill' in pencil on the verso.
sheet 40 x 30in (101.5 x 76.2cm)
Archival pigment print, printed later, inscribed
'this archival pigment print was made from a high resolution file from Evans' original negative. Printed by John T. Hill' in pencil on the verso.
sheet 40 x 30in (101.5 x 76.2cm)
Footnotes
Literature
Walker Evans: Depth of Field, Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany; and Vancouver Art Gallery, 2015-2016, exhibition catalogue, p. 199
This singular image is a capsule of Evans's sensibility and method of working. It is, first of all, a "lyric document" – the term he chose to describe his work. As in many of his works the word becomes a vital element; the details of its physical properties and the meaning itself. We see in this work the ease of his appropriation and the richness of the vernacular which runs through his entire body of work. (John T. Hill)
