Berenice Abbott

BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991) Exchange place, New York, 1933 gelatin silver print, printed later signed in pencil (mount, recto) photographer's credit stamp (mount, verso) image/sheet 23¼ x 6¼in. (59 x 15.8cm.) Berenice Abbott, Aperture Masters of Photography: Number Nine, Aperture Foundation, New York 1988, p. 45.

42 BERENICE ABBOTT New York at Night, 1932 Gelatin silver print, printed 1970s. 34 x 26 cm (13 3/8 x 10 1/4 in) Signed in pencil on the mount; 'Maine' credit stamp on the verso. Estimate £4,000 - 6,000 MORE LOT DETAILS Provenance Witkin Gallery, New York Literature Berenice Abbott: Volume II , Göttingen: Steidl, 2008, cover, frontispiece and p. 35 Berenice Abbott: A Modern Vision, The New York Public Library, 1989, pl. 9 there titled New York at Night. Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue, West Side, 34th and 35th Streets (General View North), Manhattan CONTACT SPECIALIST Lou Proud Head of Photographs, London lproud@phillips.com + 44 207 318 4092 CONDITION REPORT SHARE

Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) Yuban Warehouse, Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn, May 22 , 1936 Gelatin silver print, probably printed between 1958 and 1966, flush-mounted to board, signed in pencil on the mount; the 'Photograph, Berenice Abbott, Abbott, Maine 04406' credit stamp on the mount verso. 7 1/2 x 9 1/2in Provenance: Carl Siembab Gallery of Photography, Boston, Mass (label on the reverse of the mount) The Cronin Gallery, Houston, Texas Literature: O'Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer , McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1982, pp. 136-137; Berenice Abbott: Photographs , Horizon Press, New York, 1970, pp. 80-81

ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991) "Brooklyn Bridge." Silver print, 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), with Abbott's Federal Art Project Changing New York hand stamp with the title, date, and additional notations, in pencil, on verso. 1936 Estimate $5,000-7,500 New York in the Thirties, 87. Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 33 (Outer Boroughs, Brooklyn). Berenice Abbott (2005), 146.

Lot 164 ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991) [Cigar Store Indian, 1930s] . Gelatin silver print, 13 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (337 x 248 mm), signed recto in pencil on mount (l.r.), the verso with Abbott's Belfast, Maine stamp. C Estimate $2,500-3,500 Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Doyle New York shall have no responsibility for any error or omission. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging.