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Berenice Abbott

Springfield, Ohio 1898 – 1991 Monson, Maine

Fifth Avenue Houses, Nos. 4, 6, 8. 1936

Gelatin silver print, 1982. 43,7 × 55 cm (17 ¼ × 21 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Berenice Abbott. Fifth Avenue Houses, Nos. 4, 6, 8. 1936.

Estimate:

EUR 4,000

 

- 6,000

USD 4,650

 

- 6,980

Sold for:

5,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

The Art of Photography, Wednesday, 01.12.2021

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Gelatin silver print, 1982. 43,7 × 55 cm (17 ¼ × 21 ⅝ in.). Laid down on original cardboard (77,2 x 92,3 cm), thereupon signed in pencil lower right, editioned lower left. On the reverse of the cardboard portfolio- and copyright stamp: „BERENICE ABBOTT Retrospective, Published by Parasol Press, Ltd. 1982 [...]“. One of 40 editioned prints from the portfolio „BERENICE ABBOTT Retrospective”, ed. by Parasol Press, Ltd., 1982.

LIFE, Vol. 4, No. 1 (3.1.1938), p. 40 (there titled: The vanishing splendor of victorian Fifth Avenue is preserved by Berenice Abbott's camera) / LIFE 1936-1945. The First Decade. Boston 1979, p. 100 (there titled: Numbers 4, 6, and 8 Fifth Ave., corner of 8th St., New York City) / Hank O'Neal: Berenice Abbott. American Photographer. New York 1982, p. 108 / Bonnie Yochelson: Berenice Abbott. Changing New York. Photographien aus den 30er Jahren. Munich, Paris, London 1997/2002, Greenwich Village, pl. 42 / Exh. cat.: Berenice Abbott. Photographs. Paris, Jeu de Paume, 2012, p. 98 / Julia Van Haaften: Berenice Abbott. New York 2015, p. 29 (there titled and dated: Fifth Avenue, Nos. 4,6,8, Manhattan, March 20, 1936) / Exh. cat.: Berenice Abbott. Topographien. Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, 2016, p. 51

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