May 19, 2011 - Sale 2248

Sale 2248 - Lot 211

Price Realized: $ 14,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
James Joyce. Silver print, 13x10 inches (33x25.4 cm.), flush mounted, with Abbott's signature, in pencil, on recto and her early Commerce Street hand stamp, a typed label with Joyce's name as well as his name, in ink, in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1928; printed circa 1940
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Abbott, who had assisted photographer Man Ray for three years, opened her own Parisian atelier in 1926. Her biographer Hank O'Neal notes that "Abbott's subjects were people in the artistic and literary worlds, including French nationals (Jean Cocteau), expatriates (James Joyce), and others just passing through the city. " Early on she photographed Joyce at home. Later on, in 1928, she photographed the novelist again, this time in her studio.

From the Collection of Zero Mostel.
Berenice Abbott: Photographs, 26; Berenice Abbott (2008), 45 (vol. 1).