Lot 110: PETER SEKAER (1901-1950)

Fa‡ade, New Orleans Gelatin silver print. Circa 1936. Credit in ink on the verso. 73/4 x 9 3/8in. (19.7 x 23.7cm.) NOTES Danish emigr‚ Peter Sekaer came to the United States in 1918, studied photography with Berenice Abbott at the New School for Social Research in 1934 and joined Walker Evans on his epic Resettlement Administration assignment in the American South in 1936. Fa‡ade, New Orleans, was taken during this trip. Although influenced by the documentary style of both Evans and Abbott, Sekaer's work differs in his preoccupation with the human constituent of his compositions. Sekaer went on to work for a number of government agencies, then pursued a commercial career until his premature death, aged 49, in 1950. Subsequently almost forgotten, interest in his work was revived by retrospective exhibitions in Denmark and the United States in the 1990s.