
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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- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
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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