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Berenice Abbott

Springfield, Ohio 1898 – 1991 Monson, Maine

Tri-Boro Barber School, 264 Bowery, Manhattan. 1935

Vintage or early gelatin silver contact print. 25,3 x 20,2 cm (10 x 8 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Berenice Abbott. Tri-Boro Barber School, 264 Bowery, Manhattan. 1935.

Estimate:

EUR 1,500

 

- 2,000

USD 2,000

 

- 2,670

Sold for:

1,830 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 187-192

Photography, Wednesday, 23.11.2011

Information

Vintage or early gelatin silver contact print. 25,3 x 20,2 cm (10 x 8 in.). On the reverse stamp, heavily faded (visible under ultraviolet light): „FEDERAL ART PROJECT, ‘Changing New York’, PHOTOGRAPHS BY BERENICE ABBOTT“ as well as photographer's stamp: „photograph berenice abbott 50 commerce st. new york city“. Inscribed in pencil: „Tri Boro Barber School, 264 Bowery, Manhattan, Neg-24, Code: 1A 2 and IIIH, Taken: October 24, 1935“ as well as inscribed and numbered in pencil by another hand. In the margins selective minor losses of gelatin layer.

Berenice Abbott, American Photographer, ed. by Berenice Abbott and Hank O’Neal, New York 1982, p. 161
Bonnie Yochelson, Berenice Abbott - Changing New York, Photographien aus den 30er Jahren, ed. by the Museum of the City of New York, Munich 2002, plates n.p., cat.-inscr.: Lower East Side 34 (variation)

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