Helen Levitt, Subway Portrait (woman sleeping on man's shoulder)
1938-1941
Gelatin silver print.
7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (19.1 x 24.8 cm)
Signed in pencil on the verso.
Provenance
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
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. 165
Walther König, Manhattan Transit: The Subway Photographs of Helen Levitt, p. 13
Laurence Miller Gallery, Helen Levitt: A Memorial Tribute, p. 12
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1938-1941
Gelatin silver print.
7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (19.1 x 24.8 cm)
Signed in pencil on the verso.
Provenance
Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
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. 165
Walther König, Manhattan Transit: The Subway Photographs of Helen Levitt, p. 13
Laurence Miller Gallery, Helen Levitt: A Memorial Tribute, p. 12