Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Day Sale
Berenice Abbott
'Gunsmith opposite Police Department, Centre Street, New York City'
Auction Closed
May 2, 05:08 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Berenice Abbott
1898 - 1991
'Gunsmith opposite Police Department, Centre Street, New York City'
warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted, the photographer's '50 Commerce Street / New York 14, N. Y.' stamp and signed and with title in pencil on the reverse, 1937
image: 7⅝ by 9⅝ in. (19.3 by 24.4 cm.)
Private Collection
Sotheby’s New York, 11 October 2005, Sale 8115, Lot 33
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer (New York, 1982), p. 106
Bonnie Yochelson, Berenice Abbott: Changing New York (The Museum of The City of New York, 1997), Lower East Side, pl. 26
Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography, from Dry-Plate to Digital: The Hallmark Photographic Collection (Kansas City, 1999), p. 242