Versailles - Bassin de Neptune
Eugène Atget (Libourne 1857 - Paris 1927)
Lot-No. 75
Albumen print, 18 x 21,5 cm, on the reverse name and adress of the artist, matted, matted and framed under glass. - French photographer. A. worked as actor and sailor before becoming a self-taught painter and photographer since 1888. Since 1892 he worked as photographer in Paris. He is an important chronicler of the architecture and street life of old Paris which earned him the nickname 'Balzac of camera' Mus.: New York (MoMA and Metrop. Mus.), London (V&A), Los Angeles (Getty-Mus.), Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.) Lit.: AKL, Bénézit a. others.
Eugène Atget: Versailles - Bassin de Neptune
Eugène Atget (Libourne 1857 - Paris 1927)
Versailles - Bassin de Neptune
Lot-No. 75
Albumen print, 18 x 21,5 cm, on the reverse name and adress of the artist, matted, matted and framed under glass. - French photographer. A. worked as actor and sailor before becoming a self-taught painter and photographer since 1888. Since 1892 he worked as photographer in Paris. He is an important chronicler of the architecture and street life of old Paris which earned him the nickname 'Balzac of camera' Mus.: New York (MoMA and Metrop. Mus.), London (V&A), Los Angeles (Getty-Mus.), Paris (Bibliothèque Nationale), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.) Lit.: AKL, Bénézit a. others.