Mar 11, 2021 - Sale 2561

Sale 2561 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
A portfolio entitled Portraits in Palladium, Paris - New York 1926-1929. Complete with 11 of Abbott's early portraits. Palladium prints, the images measuring 4 1/2x3 1/2 inches (11.4x8.9 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the sheets approximately 10x8 1/2 inches (25.4x21.6 cm.), each with Abbott's embossed initials and edition notation 19/29, in pencil, on recto; enclosed in a paper mat, also with Abbott's embossed initials on the overmat, and the portfolio hand stamp, sitter's name stamp, and the edition notation, in pencil, on verso. Small folio-sized clamshell case with a gilt-lettered leather label; the colophon with Abbott's signature and edition notation, in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 29. Commerce Graphics, Lunn Ltd., 1926-29; printed 1989

Djuna Barnes, 1926 * Sylvia Beach, 1926 * James Joyce, 1926 * Eugene Atget, 1927 * Jean Cocteau, 1927 * Tsugouharu Foujita, 1927 * Andre Gide, 1927 * Buddy Gilmore, 1927 * Janet Flanner, 1927 * Princess Eugène Murat, 1929 * Isamu Noguchi, 1929.