Eugène Atget (1857–1927) - Pavillon d'Entrée du Chateau

Eugène Atget (1857-1927), Pavilion Entrance to the Chateau, 1925/1981. Silver gelatin on photographic paper, 17.8 × 23.9 cm, mounted on a backing board (28 × 34 cm) which is numbered, dated, annotated and titled. Provenance: Private collection, Berlin. Condition: Good condition. Illustrations are part of the condition description. Eugène Atget created in this period – more precisely between March and June 1925 – a famous series of a total of 64 photographs in the overgrown park of the Domaine de Sceaux south of Paris, shortly before the historic site was extensively restored. Biography Eugène Atget was born in 1957 in Libourne, France. In 1878 he moved to Paris to try to become an actor, with little success. In 1888 he began photographing. From 1890 he sold his photographs, taken with a large-format camera on glass negatives, as working material to artists, designers, and architects. A large part of his extensive oeuvre of around 8500 glass negatives had already been sold by Atget in 1920 to French institutions. After his death in 1927, the young photographer Berenice Abbott, who had come to know and appreciate Atget through his friend Man Ray, acquired part of the estate and published in 1930 the first overview of Atget’s work, which brought him international recognition posthumously.

Estimate:£500.95

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