Helen Levitt, Subway Portrait (woman looking at man in hat)

1938-1941
Gelatin silver print.
6 7/8 x 9 3/8 in. (17.5 x 23.8 cm)
Signed in pencil on the verso.

Provenance

Laurence Miller Gallery

Exhibited

Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, 10 December 2013 – 8 June 2014
Helen Levitt, Albertina Museum, Vienna, 12 October 2018 – 27 January 2019; Photographers’ Gallery, London, 15 October 2021 – 13 February 2022

Literature

Albertina, Helen Levitt, p. 164
Walther König, Manhattan Transit: The Subway Photographs of Helen Levitt, p. 16
Laurence Miller Gallery, Helen Levitt: A Memorial Tribute, p. 12