Helen Levitt (1913-2009); New York (Three Boys with Toy Guns);

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Helen Levitt (1913-2009) New York (Three Boys with Toy Guns), c. 1940 Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1940s; signed, dated, and annotated 'n.y.' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse. 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) Footnotes: Provenance Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco Literature Helen Levitt: One, Two, Three, More (Brooklyn, 2017), p. 156 Helen Levitt (Vienna: The Albertina Museum, 2019), p. 144 For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

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Helen Levitt (1913-2009); New York (Three Boys with Toy Guns);

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Helen Levitt (1913-2009); Untitled (I Am A Killer);

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