Apr 15, 2002 - Sale 1931

Sale 1931 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 2,990
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 4,500
GROTZ, PAUL <>

Portrait of Walker Evans. Silver print, 3x2 inches, with Evans's notations "Darien, 1929," in pencil, on verso. 1929

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This print is from the collection of Bobbi Carey, Evans's assistant from 1973-74. According to Evans expert Jeff Rosenheim of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The picture was made in Darien, Connecticut with Evans's camera, and possibly directed by him as well. At the same time, Walker photographed Grotz." A variant of this image is reproduced in the monograph<