Lot Essay
When Man Ray selected this photograph for the cover of La Révolution Surréaliste, Atget asked that his credit not appear. He said that his photographs are only 'documents for artists.'
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The Collection of Mildred S. and Herbert C. Lee
EUGÈNE ATGET (1857-1927)
Pendant l'Éclipse, 1912
Details
EUGÈNE ATGET (1857-1927)
Pendant l'Éclipse, 1912
printing-out paper
reversed number '891' (in the negative), typed credit label affixed (on the mount); title, various annotations in an unknown hand in pencil and credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 6 7/8 x 8¾in. (17.5 x 22.3cm.)
mount: 7¾ x 9¾in. (19.7 x 24.7cm.)
Pendant l'Éclipse, 1912
printing-out paper
reversed number '891' (in the negative), typed credit label affixed (on the mount); title, various annotations in an unknown hand in pencil and credit stamp (on the reverse of the mount)
image/sheet: 6 7/8 x 8¾in. (17.5 x 22.3cm.)
mount: 7¾ x 9¾in. (19.7 x 24.7cm.)
Provenance
The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
to the present owner, 2002
to the present owner, 2002
Literature
La Révolution Surréaliste, no. 7, 15 June 1926, front cover; Atget and Proust, A Vision of Paris, MacMillan, 1963, p. 23; Laxton, Paris as Gameboard: Man Ray's Atgets, Columbia University, 2002, pl. 3; Aubenas and Le Gall, Atget: Une Rétrospective, Bibliothèque nationale de France/Éditions Hazan, 2007, p. 103; Eugène Atget: Old Paris, Fundación Mapfre/TF Editores, 2011, p. 291
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