May 27, 2021 - Sale 2570

Sale 2570 - Lot 72

Price Realized: $ 8,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
A portfolio entitled Faces of the 20s. Complete with 12 of Abbott's early portraits. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 13 1/2x10 1/2 inches (34.3x26.7 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the mounts 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm.), each with Abbott's block-lettered signature and edition notation 8/60, in pencil, on mount recto, and a portfolio hand stamp on mount verso. Folio-sized cloth clamshell case; with the printed title page and plate list; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 60. New York: Parasol Press, printed 1981

James Joyce, 1928 * Princess Eugène Murat, 1929 * Buddy Gilmore, circa 1926 * Jean Cocteau's Hands, 1927 * Eugène Atget, 1927 * Edna St. Vincent Millay, circa 1929 * André Gide, 1928 * Janet Flanner, 1927 * Mrs. Raymond Massey, 1926 * Solita Solano, 1927 * Princess Marthe Bibesco, 1927 * Jean Cocteau, 1927.

Additional Details

From the Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York.