Oct 22, 2020 - Sale 2548

Sale 2548 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Group of 13 photographs depicting scenes of Manhattan from Abbott's iconic Changing New York series. Silver contact prints (11) and silver study prints (2), the images measuring approximately 7 3/4x9 3/4 inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), and the reverse, 11 with Abbott's Federal Art Project "Changing New York" hand stamp, with the location, negative number, and/or date, in pencil, in an unknown hand, six with Abbott's Commerce Street hand stamp, and one with only the title and date, in ink, on verso; both study prints with proof hand stamps, on recto. 1930s

Riverside Drive, #857, 1937 * Rhinelander Row III (Seventh Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets, Manhattan), 1937 * Father Duffy, Times Square, Manhattan, 1937 * El, Sixth Avenue Line, 28th Street Station, 1938 * St. Mark's Church Cloister, 10th Street and 2nd Avenue, 1937 * El Station, 9th Avenue Line, Christopher St., Manhattan, 1936 * St. Mark's Church Statue in Courtyard. East 10th St. and Second Ave., Manhattan, 1937 * Theater - Civil Repertory, 14th Street West of 6th Ave., Manhattan, 1936 * New York Telephone Building, 1936 * Spring and Varick Streets, Manhattan, 1935 * St. Mark's Church, East 10th Street and Second Avenue, 1937 * Hudson and West Houston Streets (variant), 1938 * Third Avenue Car Barns (variant) Third Ave. and 65 Street, 1936.