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Berenice Abbott

'Gunsmith opposite Police Department, Centre Street, New York City'

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GTNN

Estimate

6,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Berenice Abbott

1898 - 1991

'Gunsmith opposite Police Department, Centre Street, New York City'


warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted, the photographer's '50 Commerce Street / New York 14, N. Y.' stamp and signed and with title in pencil on the reverse, 1937

image: 7⅝ by 9⅝ in. (19.3 by 24.4 cm.)

Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1979

Private collects ion

Sotheby’s New York, 11 October 2005, Sale 8115, Lot 33

Berenice Abbott: New York in the Thirties (New York, 1973), pl. 26

Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer (New York, 1982), p. 106

Bonnie Yochelson, Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (The Museum of The City of New York, 1997), Lower East Side, pl. 26

Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography, from Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic collects ion (Kansas City, 1999), p. 242