May 27, 2021 - Sale 2570

Sale 2570 - Lot 202

Unsold
Estimate: $ 25,000 - $ 35,000
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
A portfolio entitled Berenice Abbott's New York. Complete with 12 of Abbott's iconic New York City views. Silver prints, the images measuring 13 1/2x3 1/4 to 10 3/4x13 3/4 inches (34.3x8.3 to 27.3x34.9 cm.) and the reverse, the mounts 16x20 inches (40.6x50.8 cm.), each with Abbott's block-lettered signature and edition notation 50/60, in pencil, on mount recto. Folio-sized brown cloth clamshell box; with the printed title page, plate list, and colophon; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 60 NUMBERED AND 5 LETTERED COPIES. New York: Parasol Press Ltd., 1931-38; printed 1979

Exchange Place * Night View * Fifth Avenue at 8th Street * Butcher Shop * Penn Station * El at Battery * Yuban Warehouse Lower Manhattan * Barclay Street Hoboken Ferry * Flat Iron Building * Hardware Store * Newsstand * Lyric Theatre

Additional Details

Acquired from Sotheby's, New York in April 2005, lot 53; to a Private Midwest Collector.