Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection
Photographs from the Ginny Williams Collection
Berenice Abbott
Selected Images
Lot Closed
December 4, 03:12 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
Selected Images
2 large-format gelatin silver prints from the Retrospective Portfolio (New York: Parasol Press, 1982, a total edition of 40), comprising Parafoti, 317 Broadway, New York and Poultry Shop, East Seventh Street, New York, each mounted, signed and respectively editioned '4/40' and '29/40' in pencil on the mount, the portfolio stamp on the reverse, 1935-6, printed circa 1982 (2)
images: the largest 19 3/8 by 23 in. (49.2 by 58.4 cm.)
Parafoti:
Sotheby's New York, 26 April 1989, Sale 5833, Lot 311
Sotheby's New York, 26 April 1989, Sale 5833, Lot 311
Berenice Abbott, vol. II (Göttingen, 2008), pp. 58 and 105
Poultry:
Berenice Abbott: Photographs (New York, 1970), p. 94