May 22, 2007 - Sale 2115

Sale 2115 - Lot 333

Price Realized: $ 3,120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WEEGEE (1899-1968)
Joe Gould ("Joe Goold--Village Chadder" [sic]). Silver print, 9 1/4x7 1/4 inches, with Weegee's caption, in blue ink, on recto and his signature "Photo by Weegee" on verso. Early 1940s

Additional Details

Joe Gould, an authentic eccentric, was a fixture in the West Village beatnik scene, the inspiration for "New Yorker" journalist Joseph Mitchell's "The Secret of Joe Gould," and the lover of painter Alice Neel.