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EUGÈNE ATGET (French, 1857-1927) BOUTIQUE, 16 RUE DUPETIT-THOUARS titled and numbered

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EUGÈNE ATGET (French, 1857-1927) BOUTIQUE, 16 RUE DUPETIT-THOUARS titled and numbered
EUGÈNE ATGET (French, 1857-1927) BOUTIQUE, 16 RUE DUPETIT-THOUARS titled and numbered "238" by Atget in pencil on verso albumen print 8 5/8 x 7 1/8 in. (21.9 x 18.1 cm) circa 1910 PROVENANCE Zabriskie Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE ATGET: PHOTOGRAPHE DE PARIS, New York, 1930, pl. 21 (illustrated) Thomas Michael Gunther, "Les photographies d'Atget achetées par Man Ray," PHOTOGRAPHIES, numéro hors série "Colloque Atget," (March 1986), pp. 70-73. (no. 22 illustrated on p. 71) Molly Nesbit, ATGET'S SEVEN ALBUMS, New Haven, 1992, p. 373, fig. 32 (illustrated) Guillaume Le Gall, ATGET, PARIS PITTORESQUE, Paris, 1998, p. 162 (illustrated) Jean-Claude Lemagny, ATGET: LE PIONNIER, Paris, 2000, p. 137 (illustrated) Hans Christian Adam, ed., PARIS: EUGÈNE ATGET, 1857-1927, Cologne, 2000, p. 167 (illustrated) EUGÈNE ATGET'S PARIS, Cologne, 2001, p. 113 (illustrated) Susan Laxton, PARIS AS GAMEBOARD: MAN RAY'S ATGETS, New York, 2002, pl. 33 (illustrated) It is not surprising that another print of this photograph was among the more than three dozen Atgets that Man Ray sold to the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, in 1952. The Surrealist quality of the figures, apparently less alive than the mannequins, surely must have appealed to Man Ray.
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