Eugène Atget, Fourteen posthumously printed photographs including,

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Eugène Atget, French 1857-1927 - Fourteen posthumously printed photographs including, 'Corsets', old toned albumen print, 22.5 x 16.5 cm; 'Vieux Puits', petit chemin, rue de la Gare, Châtillon', old toned albumen print, numbered in pencil to mount lower left '51/100', 17.4 x 23 cm; 'Versailles', old toned albumen print, titled to photocopy attached to the reverse of the frame, 20.3 x 17.2 cm; 'Étang de Corot, Ville-d'Avray', old toned albumen print, numbered to mount '95/100', 17 x 23.2 cm; 'Parc de Sceaux', gold toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '58/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 27.1 x 21.5 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Coeur de Rouen', old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '56/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 27 x 20.5 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Interior de Monsieur', old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '35/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 27.2 x 21.8 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Magazins du Bon March', old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '35/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 22.7 x 27.2 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Femmes de Vernière'; old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '40/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 28 x 22.1 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Hôtel Gaillardon', old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '44/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 22 x 28 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Houblon', old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '41/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 22.8 x 28 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Marchand de Paniers', old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '34/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 27.5 x 21.7 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Coiffeur, Palais Royal', old toned albumen print, stamped lower left 'MOMA CAW 1978', numbered in pencil lower left '26/100', numbered again and titled to mount, 20.9 x 26.8 cm (mounted/unframed); 'Panthéon', old toned albumen print, titled to mount, 20.7 x 27 cm (mounted/unframed) (14) Provenance: ('Corsets') Collection Berenice Abbott, New York (according to the photocopy attached to the reverse of the frame); with Julian Levy Gallery, New York (according to the photocopy attached to the reverse of the frame); (other works) with Phyllis Hattis Fine Art, New York; Jonathan Bayer, purchased from the above; The Bayer Family Collection Note: posthumously printed by MOMA Ltd. in 1978. Across three decades, Eugène Atget photographed Paris with extraordinary patience and specificity, recording its shopfronts, streets, interiors, parks and architectural fragments as the old city gave way to the modern one. These posthumous prints also trace Atget’s 20th-century afterlife, through Julien Levy, whose championing of his work helped secure his place within modern photography.