Jun 11, 2020 - Sale 2536

Sale 2536 - Lot 159

Price Realized: $ 5,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Group of 11 photographs of New York City boroughs from Abbott's iconic Changing New York series. Silver contact prints (8) and silver prints (3), the images measuring approximately 7 3/4x9 3/4 inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Abbott's Federal Art Project "Changing New York" hand stamp and the location, negative number, and/or date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, on verso; five with Abbott's Commerce Street hand stamp and one with Abbott's West 53rd Street hand stamp, also on verso. 1930s

Additional Details

Belvedere Restaurant, Bay 16th Street and Cropsey Avenue, Brooklyn, 1936 Children's Aid Society, Summer Home, Cropsey And 18th Avenues, Brooklyn, 1936 Garibaldi Memmorial, Tompkins Ave., Corner Chestnut, Staten Island, 1937 Fire Engine House #52, Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, 1937 Powers and Olive Street, Brooklyn, 1937 Willow Place #70, Brooklyn, 1936 Ewen Avenue, No. 2565. Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, 1935 Immigration Building, Ellis Island, 1938 Ft. Lowry Hotel, foot of 17th Avenue, Brooklyn, 1936 St. Mark's Place, #340-348 Staten Island, 1937 Cropsey Ave., #1736, Brooklyn, 1936.