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Berenice Abbott

Selected Images of New York (10 photographs)

Lot closes

October 23, 07:29 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

Selected Images of New York (10 photographs)


a group of 10 gelatin silver prints, 4 mounted, variously signed in pencil on the reverse and the mounts and with the photographer's credit, 'Abbott, Maine', Federal Art Project 'Changing New York', '56 W. 53rd St., New York City' and '50 Commerce St., New York City' stamps on the reverse

images to: 13¼ by 9¾ in. (33.7 by 24.8 cm.)

Executed in 1935-38, some printed later.

The photographs are as follows:


South and DePeyster Streets, Manhattan, 1935

Squibb Building with The Sherry-Netherland in Rear - 5th Avenue and 57th St., 1935

Stone and William Streets, 1936

Seaman's Bank for Savings, 1936

N. Y. Telephone Building, 140 West Street, Manhattan, 1936

Garibaldi Ave One Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C., 1936

McGraw Hill Building from 42nd Street and 9th Avenue looking East, Manhattan, 1936

Lower Manhattan Looking Toward Brooklyn, 1937

Rector Street, Italian Festival (Stores-Offices/Now Renting), 1938

Thames St. from Manhattan, 1938