Selected Images by Eugene Atget

Eugene Atget: St. Cloud (Stairway and Vase) 1922, Vintage arrowroot print, 7 x 9-3/16 in. (178 x 234 mm), unmounted., Ex-MoMA, deaccessioned in the mid 1970's. "compared to the more objective, declarative explanatory character of his earlier work, Atget's postwar pictures are overtly subjective, idiosyncratic, lyrical, and suggestive. They are less concerned with facts than with life." Maria Morris Hambourg, Volume II: The Art of Old Paris, page 30. w1575.

Eugene Atget: St. Cloud, fin Aout, 6/12 h. 1924, Vintage arrowroot print, 7-1/16 x 8-13/16 in. (180 x 225 mm), unmounted., "Rue Campagne-Premiere, 17 bis" black instamp and titled and numbered 1252 by the artist on reverse."MOMA dupe 2002" in another hand on verso. Illustrated: Szarkowski and Hambourg, "The Work of Atget: The Ancien Regime", plate 63, MoMA, 1983. In Volume II The Art of Old Paris, page 30, Maria Morris Hambourg writes "compared to the more objective, declarative explanatory character of his earlier work, Atget's postwar pictures are overtly subjective, idiosyncratic, lyrical, and suggestive. They are less concerned with facts than with life." z6006.