View full screen - View 1 of Lot 83. New York (Two Women).

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations

Helen Levitt

New York (Two Women)

No reserve

Lot Closed

April 3, 05:29 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

We may charge or debit your saved payment method subject to the terms set out in our Conditions of Business for Buyers.

Read more.

Lot Details

Description

Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations

Helen Levitt

1913 - 2009

New York (Two Women)


gelatin silver print, signed, titled ‘N.Y.’, dated 'c. 1940' and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed

image: 8½ by 7½ in. (21.6 by 19.1 cm.)

frame: 16 by 14⅞ in. (40.6 by 37.8 cm.)

Executed circa 1940.

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Gendell Gallery, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1994)

Acquired from the above in 2006 by the present owner

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Turning the Page, April 2024 - January 2025

Helen Levitt, A Way of Seeing (New York, 1965), pl. 44

Sandra S. Phillips and Maria Morris Hambourg, Helen Levitt (San Francisco, 1991), no. 46 (variant)

Crosstown: Photographs by Helen Levitt (Brooklyn, 2001), p. 29 (variant)