Helen Levitt - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation New York Thursday, April 4, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1998

  • Exhibited

    Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, 10 December 2013 – 8 June 2014
    Shared History: Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Ritter Art Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, 24 January – 7 March 2020

  • Literature

    Levitt & Agee, A Way of Seeing, pl. 21
    PowerHouse Books, Helen Levitt: Crosstown, p. 31
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Helen Levitt, pl. 19

132

N.Y.C. (kids fighting over door)

circa 1940
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
11 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (29.8 x 20 cm)
Signed, dated and annotated 'N.Y.C.' in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for $8,255

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation

New York Auction 4 April 2024