Weegee - Photographs New York Friday, April 5, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The photographer to Nancy Newhall, 1944
    The Collection of Graham Nash, Los Angeles
    Sotheby's, New York "Photographs from the Collection of Graham Nash," 25 April 1990, lot 322
    Ehlers Caudill Gallery, Chicago

  • Literature

    Knopf, Credit Photo by The Famous Weegee, p. 70
    Barth, Weegee's World, p. 121

394

I Cried When I took this Picture (Tenement Fire, Harlem)

1939
Gelatin silver print, printed no later than 1944.
10 5/8 x 13 3/8 in. (27 x 34 cm)
Signed and inscribed 'To Nancy Newhall' in ink on the image; circular 'Weegee the Famous' credit stamp on the verso.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

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Photographs

New York Auction 5 April 2024