Ernest J. Bellocq

American | 1873 - 1949

Ernest J. Bellocq was an American photographer who was born in 1873. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Tang Museum have featured Ernest J. Bellocq's work in the past.Ernest J. Bellocq's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 70 USD to 56,700 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1999 the record price for this artist at auction is 56,700 USD for Storyville Portrait, New Orleans, c. 1911-1913, sold at Christie's New York in 2023. Ernest J. Bellocq has been featured in articles for The Brooklyn Rail, ArtDaily and Toronto Star. The most recent article is In Celebration written for The Brooklyn Rail in May 2019. The artist died in 1949.

Artist's alternative names: E.j. Bellocq, Ernest James Bellocq, Ernest Joseph Bellocq

Untitled (Storyville prostitute) - Ernest J. Bellocq

Untitled (Storyville prostitute) , 1911

Gold-chloride toned printing-out-paper print

8x10 inches

Untitled, from 'Storyville Portraits', c. 1912 - Ernest J. Bellocq

Untitled, from 'Storyville Portraits', c. 1912 , circa 1912, printed later by Lee Friedlander

gelatin silver printing out prints

image/sheet: each 10 x 8in. (25.3 x 20.3cm.)

Marguerite Griffin, Storyville, New Orleans - Ernest J. Bellocq

Marguerite Griffin, Storyville, New Orleans , circa 1912, probably printed in the 1960s

Gelatin silver print

11 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (28.9 x 24.1 cm)

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Storyville Resident with Pet Dog", 1960s

By Ernest J. Bellocq

+10%

above mid-estimate

New Orleans Auction Galleries

Storyville Portraits: Photographs from the New Orleans Red-light District, circa 1912,

By Ernest J. Bellocq

Crescent City Auction Gallery

E.J. Bellocq (American

By Ernest J. Bellocq

-50%

below mid-estimate

Heritage Auctions, Dallas

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Past Exhibitions

Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy

Tang Museum

Saratoga Springs | New York | USA

Jul 09,2022 - Dec 18,2022

E. J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits

Deborah Bell Photographs

New York | USA

Feb 15,2020 - Mar 28,2020

Long Story Short

Fraenkel Gallery

Union Square | San Francisco | California | USA

Oct 24,2019 - Jan 18,2020

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Articles

In Celebration

The Brooklyn Rail 01/05/2019

Marcuse “Cusie” Pfeifer is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in a world of multiple editions. When she opened her gallery on Madison Avenue in 1976, she exclusively exhibited photography, aggressively promoted women photographers, and agitated the art world with the first...

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art Exhibits a Recent Gift from the Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer

ArtDaily 10/02/2019

The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz announces “In Celebration: A Recent Gift from the Photography Collection of Marcuse Pfeifer,” an exhibition featuring 52 images by important 19th and 20th century photographers.

Ryerson Image Centre Will Display More than 200 Photos from the Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Collection

Toronto Star 13/12/2018

The photos span genres, time periods and subjects, and include works from Brassaï, Diane Arbus and Edward Burtynsky.

Coverage

“ ..For twenty years, this annual exhibition has provided viewers the rare opportunity to examine, side by side, a wide range of photographs spanning the entirety of the medium's history... ”
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Fraenkel Gallery