Feb 23, 2023 - Sale 2627

Sale 2627 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Portfolio entitled Berenice Abbott's New York IV. Complete with 12 of Abbott's iconic New York street views. Silver prints, the images measuring approximately 15 1/2x19 3/8 inches (39.4x49.2 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the mounts 30x24 inches (76.2x61 cm.), each with Abbott's block-lettered signature and edition notation 37/60 in pencil on mount recto, and her New York Portfolio stamp on mount verso. Folio-sized brown cloth clamshell box; with the printed title page and colophon; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 60 NUMBERED AND 5 LETTERED COPIES. New York: Parasol Press Ltd., 1935-38; printed 1979

Provenance: Gift of Robert Feldman, the founder of Parasol Press; by descent to the Present Owner

Traveling Tin Shop * Church of God * Court of the First Model Tenement * Henry Street * Lebanon Restaurant * August Pingpank Barber Shop * Rope Store Interior * Chicken Market * "EL," Second and Third Avenue Lines * Canyon: Broadway at Exchange Place * Blossom Restaurant * Allen Street