Feb 25, 2020 - Sale 2531

Sale 2531 - Lot 151

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Group of 14 photographs depicting scenes of Manhattan from Abbott's iconic Changing New York series. Silver contact prints (11), silver prints (one), and silver study prints (2), the images measuring approximately 7 3/4x9 3/4 inches (19.7x24.8 cm.), and the reverse, all 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, and six with Abbott's Commerce Street hand stamp, on verso; both study prints with proof hand stamp, on recto. 1930s

Additional Details

Advertisements!, 1937 Murray Hill Hotel, Park Ave and 40th Street, 1935 Fifth Avenue, No. 8 (Marble House), 1938 Burns Bros Coal Elevator and U.S.S. Illinois: Armory for Naval Reserves (West 135th St. Pier), 1937 Doorway, Tredwell House, 1937 Hester Street, 1938 McGraw-Hill Building, Front 42nd St. and 9th Avenue looking East, Manhattan, 1937 Spring and Greenwich Streets, 1938 Washington Square North, 121-125, Manhattan, 1936 Doorway: 16-18 Charles Street, 1936 Fifth Avenue Bus, Washington Square, Manhattan, 1936 Starrett Lehigh Building II, 1938 Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, 1937 West Street: Horse and Wagon, 1936.