The Wine Seller, 15 Rue Boyer
Artist
Eugène Atget
(French, 1857-1927)
CultureFrench
Date1910-11
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 × 6 3/8 in. (22.9 × 16.2 cm)
Overall, Support: 12 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (32.9 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 1/16 × 16 in. (51 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Support: 12 15/16 × 9 15/16 in. (32.9 × 25.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 1/16 × 16 in. (51 × 40.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2207.43
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a photograph depicting an empty bar. It was printed by Berenice Abbott.Label TextEugène Atget French (1857-1927) The Empty Bar, ca. 1900 Gelatin silver print Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2207.43 For more than three decades, pioneering photographer Eugène Atget made some 10,000 glass-plate negatives of just about anything in and around turn-of-the-century Paris. Atget was interested in recording everyday life and ordinary scenes. He sought to preserve the disappearing old Paris in photographs of neighborhoods and people working in trades that modern ways would soon eliminate. The result is a body of work that beautifully blends the realistic with the nostalgic. Edited By: MTH Edited Date: 11/07/2000 Approved By: GLY Approval Date: 11/07/2000Exhibition History"Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris," The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, September 10, 2009 - January 3, 2010; International Center of Photography, New York, NY, January 29 - May 9, 2010; the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, June 10 - October 10, 2010.Published ReferencesBen Lifson, _Eugéne Atget_ (New York: Aperture, 1980), 25. ISBN: 0-89381-052-5 A print of this photograph John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg, _The Work of Atget, Volume IV: Modern Times_ (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1985), 99, pl.63. ISBN:0-87070-218-1 A print of this photograph Clark Worswick, _Berenice Abbott & Eugéne Atget_ (Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2002), pl.36. ISBN: 1-892041-63-4 A print of this photograph Theresa Lichtenstein, _Twilight Visions: Surrealism and Paris_, exh. cat., (Berkley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009), 72.
