Photographs
Photographs
Berenice Abbott
'José Clemente Orozco, New York'
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April 7, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
'José Clemente Orozco, New York'
gelatin silver print, mounted, the 'Photographs from Berenice Abbott / 50 Commerce Street / New York 14, N.Y.' studio label, with typed title and date, on the reverse, framed, 1935
image: 9 ⅝ by 7 ¾ in. (24.5 by 19.7 cm.)
frame: 22 ¾ by 18 ¼ in. (57.8 by 46.4 cm.)
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston
Hank O'Neal, Berenice Abbott, American Photographer (New York, 1982), p. 183
'Orozco was in New York in the 1930s for a meeting of the Artists' Congress. I saw him and was impressed with the strength of his face and asked to take his portrait. I was living on Fifty-third Street, across from the Museum of Modern Art. He came by and sat for me; it was one of the few times I asked anyone to pose for me after I returned to New York.' (Berenice Abbott, quoted in O'Neal, p. 183)