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WALKER EVANS (1903-1975)
'Madam Adele,' Palmistry Sign, c. 1936
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled and dated by an unknown hand in pencil with stamped photographer's credit in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 538 x 338 in. (13.7 x 7.6 cm.)
mount: 14 x 978 in. (35.6 x 25.1 cm.)
Provenance
Estate of Mia Agee, Wife of novelist James Agee;
Robert Mann Gallery, New York;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1980s.
Literature
Giles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1993, p. 314.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, California, 1995, pl. 583, p. 177.
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