Feb 28, 2012 - Sale 2270

Sale 2270 - Lot 23

Price Realized: $ 13,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ATGET, EUGÈNE (1857-1927)/ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
Portfolio titled "20 Photographs," containing 20 (of 20) elegant photographs by the celebrated Parisian photographer. Gold-toned silver prints, each approximately 9x6 1/2 inches (22.9x16.5 cm.) or slightly smaller, and the reverse, each with Abbott's signature, in ink, and the "Photograph by Eugène Atget, Printed by Berenice Abbott" and sequential number hand stamps on mount verso. Small folio, gilt-lettered gray-linen folding case; the colophon with the edition notation 80, in ink; contents loose as issued. one of 100 numbered sets. 1898-1927; printed 1956

Additional Details

"St. Cloud" "Nenuphars" "Men's Fashions" "Eclipse," 1911 "Paris Interior" "Pompe Funebre (1e Classe)," 1910 "Carrousel" "Marchand Abat-Jours" "Rue St. Rustique," March 1922 "Maison Close" "Bar de Cabaret" "Street Paver" "Cour, Rue de Valence" "Ragpickers' Hut" "Mannequin" "Street Musicians" "Boucherie, Rue Christine" "Faucheurs, Somme" "Environs of Paris" and "Masque Antique."
From the Collection of Anselm and Marjorie Talalay.