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Berenice Abbott

Cocteau Hands

Lot closes

October 23, 07:32 PM GMT

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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