Cocteau Hands
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October 23, 07:32 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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12,000 USD
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Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
Cocteau Hands
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed, annotated 'Paris' and dated ‘28’ in pencil on the mount, the photographer’s ‘1 W. 67th ST., N. Y. C.’ stamp and with title (in duplicate) in pencil on the reverse, framed
image: 5½ by 7¾ in. (14 by 19.7 cm.)
frame: 14½ by 11½ in. (36.8 by 29.2 cm.)
Executed in 1927.
Gift of the photographer, 1930s
By descent to the present owner
Berenice Abbott: Photographs, (New York, 1970), p. 19
Berenice Abbott Photographer: A Modern Vision (The New York Public Library, 1989), pl. 5
Ron Kurtz and Hank O’Neal, Bernice Abbott, vol. I, (Göttingen, 2008), pg. 61
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