Oct 21, 2003 - Sale 1981

Sale 1981 - Lot 98

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
Portrait of Eugène Atget. Silver print, 131/2x10 inches (34.3x25.4 cm.), with Abbott's signature and edition notation "42/60," in pencil, on mount recto; and her's and the publisher's hand stamp on mount verso. 1927; printed 1981
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In 1927, a young portrait photographer named Berenice Abbott, who was then in the employ of Man Ray, photographed the aged Atget, whose studio was near Man Ray's on the Rue de Campagne, in Paris. Deeply inspired by his oeuvre, which served as the prototype for her remarkable chronicle of New York City,