Mar 23, 2010 - Sale 2208

Sale 2208 - Lot 98

Unsold
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
"Theoline, Pier 11, East River, Manhattan, New York." Oversize silver print, 16 1/2x13 1/4 inches (41.9x33.7 cm.), with 3 of Abbott's Commerce Street hand stamps on verso. 1936; printed 1940s-1950s

Additional Details

Acquired from the collection of Doris Bry in 1991.
Period prints by Abbott in this unusually large size are scarce.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 164.
New York in the Thirties, 5.
Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 10 (Wall Street).
Berenice Abbott (2008), Volume II, 122.