Walker Evans

105. Walker Evans (1903-1975) African Mask (Serrated Mouth), ca.1935 Gelatin silver print, printed ca.1960, with Harry Lunn 'Walker Evans' archive stamp, numbered in pencil XX/464, annotated in pencil in unknown hand verso, 25.2 x 20cm (9 7/8 x 8in) "Evans tailored his representations of the sculptures within his emerging photographic vision, as objects worthy of aesthetic admiration, rendered significant in a Western sense, yet stationary and inanimate in an art-museum context." Perfect Documents: Walker Evans and African Art, 1935, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Walker Evans (1903-1975) Political Poster, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts , 1930-31 Gelatin silver print, printed 1971, signed, inscribed 'VI 31/100 1936-1971' in pencil on the mount. 6 1//2 x 4 5/8in Literature: Kirstein, Walker Evans. American Photographs, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938. reprint, with new afterword by Peter Galassi, MoMA, N.Y., 1988, pl. 4; Walker Evans, First and Last, Harper and Row, New York, 1989, p. 49

EVANS, WALKER (1903-1975) "Corrugated Tin Façade" (Moundville, Alabama). Silver print, 9 1/2x13 inches (24.1x33 cm.), with Evans' signature and edition notation 43/75, in pencil, on mount recto. 1936; printed 1974 Estimate $5,000-7,500 From the Collection of Phillip Periman. Walker Evans: Selected Photographs (1974, plate 13). Walker Evans (1971), 103 (variant). Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, 241 (variant). Walker Evans: First and Last, 96 (variant). Walker Evans (Aperture), 71. Walker Evans (Getty), 524.

LOT 119 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES AND THE LATE BARBARA REIHER WALKER EVANS 1903-1975 'WALKER EVANS: FIRST AND LAST' (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), the deluxe first edition. Large square quarto, gilt-lettered grey cloth in dust jacket; with matching grey cloth slipcase; accompanied by Truckdrivers, New York City, the Evans Estate blindstamp and edition '15/75' in ink in the margin, circa 1938, printed in 1978 (2) The photograph: 7½ by 9½ in. (19.1 by 24.1 cm.)

Close WALKER EVANS Another print of this image is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica. “When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked at my work thought, well, that's just a snapshot of the backyard. Privately I knew otherwise and through stubbornness stayed with it.” WALKER EVANS 34 IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. ANTHONY TERRANA WALKER EVANS Interior Detail, West Virginia Coal Miner's House, July , 1935 Gelatin silver print. 9 1/8 x 6 in. (23.2 x 15.2 cm) Titled 'Interior' and dated in ink on the verso. ESTIMATE $50,000 - 70,000 PROVENANCE The Museum of Modern Art, New York Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York Robert Klein Gallery, Boston LITERATURE Da Capo Press, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938 , pl. 15 Harper & Row, Walker Evans: First and Last , p. 113 Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection , pl. 426 Mora and Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye , pl. 24 Szarkowski, The Photographer's Eye , n.p. for a variant The Museum of Modern Art, Walker Evans: American Photographs , pl. 23 Weski and Liesbrock, How You Look at It: Photographs of the 20th Century , p. 188 Contact Specialist Request Condtion Report Recieve Email alerts Another print of this image is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica. “When I first made photographs, they were too plain to be considered art and I wasn't considered an artist. I didn't get any attention at all. The people who looked ... Read More... View catalogue Purchase catalogue Annual subscriptions