Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Property from the Collection of Dr. Joseph D. Lichtenberg
Berenice Abbott
New York at Night
Lot Closed
October 5, 02:38 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
New York at Night
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, the photographer's 'Abbot, Maine' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1932, printed circa 1978
image: 13 ½ by 10 ¼ in. (34.3 by 26.0 cm.)
frame: 25 by 21 in. (63.5 by 53.3 cm.)
Hank O'Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer (New York, 1982), frontispiece
Berenice Abbott Photographer: A Modern Vision (The New York Public Library, 1989), pl. 9
Berenice Abbott (Göttingen, 2008), vol. 2, cover, frontispiece, and p. 35
Quentin Bajac et al., eds., Photography at MoMA, 1920-1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016), pl. 180