Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 382

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
"Rockefeller Center." Silver print, 9 1/4x7 1/2 inches (23.5x19.1 cm.), mounted to a period board with Abbott's credit, in ink, on recto, and with her credit, title, and notations indicating the print was shown at MoMA in 1937, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on mount verso. 1937

Additional Details

This print was exhibited in MoMA's Exhibition of Photographs 1839-1937 (March 17-April 18, 1937) organized by Beaumont Newhall. Newhall also wrote the catalogue, which helped establish him as America's pre-eminent historian of photography.