Oct 18, 2018 - Sale 2489

Sale 2489 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Fifth Avenue Houses, #4, 6, 8. Silver print, the image measuring 18 1/4x23 1/4 inches (46.4x59.1 cm.), the mount 30 1/2x36 1/2 inches (77.5x92.7 cm.), with Abbott's signature and edition notation 58/60, in pencil, on mount recto, and with her Berenice Abbott's New York hand stamp on mount verso. 1936; printed 1979

Additional Details

Acquired Christie's East, November 11, 1981, lot 233; to a Private New York Collector.

O'Neal, Berenice Abbott (Artpress), p. 108; Van Haaften, Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision (New York Public Library), pl. 32; Abbott, New York in the Thirties (Dover Publications), pl. 48; Yochelson, Greenwich Village, pl. 42.