ATGET EUGÈNE (1857 1927) La Rochelle Bateau

Sale 2124 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 7,200

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Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000

ATGET, EUGÈNE (1857-1927)
"La Rochelle-Bateau." Arrowroot print, 7x9 inches (17.8x22.9 cm.), with Atget's title, in pencil, and his hand stamp on verso with his negative number, "128," in the plate. Circa 1900

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Photofind Gallery (Howard Greenberg), New York; by agent to C. W. Sahlman.

The Tampa Museum of Art, "At Anchor and Underway: Images from a Tampa Collection," 1992.

A rare arrowroot photograph, a technique that Atget used sparingly and inparts an almost velvet-like surface to the print.