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Eugène Atget — Parc de Sceaux (avril, 7 heures matin) (ivy-covered urn)
Eugène Atget

Parc de Sceaux (avril, 7 heures matin) (ivy-covered urn)

1925

Eugène Atget's photograph captures an ivy-covered urn in the Parc de Sceaux during early morning light, documenting the park's architectural details with his characteristic attention to texture and atmospheric conditions. Executed as a printing-out-paper print, the work exemplifies Atget's documentary approach to Parisian landscapes and garden monuments, employing a photographic process that requires direct sunlight exposure rather than chemical development. The print's inscriptions and studio stamp reveal Atget's systematic cataloging practice, which transformed thousands of photographs of Paris and its environs into an invaluable archival record of the city's built environment in the early twentieth century.

Medium
printing-out-paper print, numbered '40' in the negative, titled and numbered in pencil and with the photographer's Rue Campagne-Première studio stamp, annotated '17 bis' in pencil, on the reverse

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The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art

October 10, 2024

Estimate: $25,000$35,000

Lot 36

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Eugène Atget, Parc de Sceaux (avril, 7 heures matin) (ivy-covered urn), 1925

Eugène Atget's photograph captures an ivy-covered urn in the Parc de Sceaux during early morning light, documenting the park's architectural details with his characteristic attention to texture and atmospheric conditions. Executed as a printing-out-paper print, the work exemplifies Atget's documentary approach to Parisian landscapes and garden monuments, employing a photographic process that requires direct sunlight exposure rather than chemical development. The print's inscriptions and studio stamp reveal Atget's systematic cataloging practice, which transformed thousands of photographs of Paris and its environs into an invaluable archival record of the city's built environment in the early twentieth century.

Medium
printing-out-paper print, numbered '40' in the negative, titled and numbered in pencil and with the photographer's Rue Campagne-Première studio stamp, annotated '17 bis' in pencil, on the reverse
Year
1925
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

French, Atmospheric, Modernist Photography, Documentary, Early 20th Century, Gelatin Silver Print, Park landscape, Nature Study, Pictorialism, Architectural Detail

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Cleveland Museum of Art