May 16, 2024 - Sale 2669

Sale 2669 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991)
Columbus Circle * Rothman's Pawn Shop, 149 8th Avenue * Gunsmith and Police Department, 6 Centre Market Place and 240 Centre Street, Manhattan. Together, 3 photographs from Berenice Abbott's New York, Portfolio III. Silver prints, the image measuring 19½x15½ inches (49.5x39.4 cm.), and slightly smaller, and the reverse, the mounts 30x24 inches (76.2x61 cm.), each with Abbott's block-lettered signature and the edition notation 54/60 in pencil on mount recto, and the portfolio stamp and title in pencil in an unknown hand on mount verso. 1936, 1938, 1937; printed 1979

Provenance: The Estate of Evelyne Z. Daitz, New York