W. EUGENE SMITH (1918–1978)
W. EUGENE SMITH (1918–1978)

The Walk to Paradise Garden, 1946

Details
W. EUGENE SMITH (1918–1978)
The Walk to Paradise Garden, 1946
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed later
signed in pencil (mount, recto)
image/sheet: 12 x 10 1/4 in. (30.4 x 26 cm.)
mount: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.7 cm.)
Provenance
Christie's, New York, October 31, 1988, lot 105;
acquired from the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, The Family of Man, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1955, p. 192.
William S. Johnson, W. Eugene Smith: Master of the Photographic Essay, Aperture, New York, 1981, p. 125, cat. no. 21:001.
Exhibition catalogue, Let Truth be the Prejudice: W. Eugene Smith, His Life and Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art/Aperture, Millerton, 1985, p. 30.
Gilles Mora et al., W. Eugene Smith: Photographs 1934-1975, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998, p. 287.

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