Avenue des Gobelins

Photography and Media

1925

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget
French, 1857–1927

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Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget
Title: Avenue des Gobelins
Place: Libourne (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1925
Medium: Gelatin silver printing out print
Inscriptions: Marked on verso: "Avenue des Gobelins/85" Stamped on verso
Dimensions: 22.5 × 17.8 cm (8 7/8 × 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Julien Levy Collection, Gift of Jean and Julien Levy
Reference Number: 1978.1039

Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. p. 26, cat. 3.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis)
Columbus, Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts, “Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2,” September 20, 1997–January 4, 1998.
Chicago, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, “A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American artists in Paris, 1918–1939,” April 17–June 27, 2004.
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art “FOTO: Modernity in Central Europe,” June 10 - September 3, 2007; traveled to the Guggenheim Museum, October 5, 2007 - January 2, 2008; The Milwaukee Art Museum, February 2 - April 27, 2008; and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, June 7 - August 31, 2008.

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