Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Berenice Abbott
Manhattan Bridge (Looking Up), New York
Lot Closed
April 10, 03:33 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Photographs from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sold to Benefit Acquisition Funds
Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
Manhattan Bridge (Looking Up), New York
gelatin silver print, number '173' in the negative, signed in pencil and with the photographer's 'Abbott, Maine' stamp on the reverse
image: 9⅝ by 7½ in. (24.4 by 19.4 cm.)
Executed in 1936.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com
Collection of Shaun Lucas
Gift of the above to the present owner
Berenice Abbott: New York in the Thirties (New York, 1973), pl. 10
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer (New York, 1982), p. 169
Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision (New York: The New York Public Library, 1989), pl. 17
Bonnie Yochelson, ed., Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (New York: The Museum of the City of New York, 1997), pl. 22
Ron Kurtz, ed., Berenice Abbott, Volume II (Gottingen, 2008), p. 199
In the February 1940 issue of Popular Photography, Berenice Abbott commented, “Suppose we took a thousand negatives and made a gigantic montage; a myriad-faceted picture combining the elegances, the squalor, the curiosities, the monuments, the sad faces, the triumphant faces, the power, the irony, the strength, the decay, the past, the present, the future of a city–that would be my favorite picture."
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