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ABBOTT, BERENICE (1898-1991)
A selection from the monumental “Retrospective Portfolio.”With 25 magnificent photographs,
including Abbott’s iconic NewYork City landscapes, scientific studies, and portraits. Large-format
silver prints, sizes ranging from approximately 22x5 (2) to 18x23 inches (55.9x12.7 to 45.7x58.4
cm.), and the reverse, museum board mounts measuring 30x36 inches (76.2x91.4 cm.), with Abbott’s
signature and edition notation 13/40, in pencil, on mount recto and the Retrospective Portfolio
hand stamp on mount verso. Elephant folio-size black clamshell case; contents loose as issued. New
York: Parasol Press, 1930-1960; printed 1982
[30,000/45,000]
“‘El,’ 2nd and 3rd Avenue Lines, Bowery and Division Streets” (#1); “Rockefeller Center” (#2); “Edward
Hopper” (#4); “Jacob Heyman Butcher Shop, 345 Sixth Avenue” (#6); “Newsstand, Southwest Corner of
32nd Street andThird Avenue” (#7);“American Shops, New Jersey” (#8);“Magnetic Field” (#12);“Triboro
Barber School, 264 Bowery” (#15);“Shoeshine Parlor” (#16);“Hardware Store, 316-318 Bowery” (#18);
“Under the El at the Battery” (#21);“Rector Street, Italian Festival” (#22);“Pendulum, Cambridge” (#23);
“Cheese Store, 276 Bleecker Street” (#24); “Falling Balls of Unequal Mass” (#25); “Christopher Street
Shop” (#26);“East Side Portrait” (#29);“Rooster, Poultry Shop, East 7th Street” (#30);“Flatiron Building”
(#38);“Zito’s Bakery (Bread Store), 259 Bleecker Street” (#39);“‘Theoline,”’Pier 11, East River” (#40);
“Façade, 312 Broadway (Parafoti Shoe Repair)” (#44);“MilkWagon and Old Houses: 8-10 Grove Street”
(#45);“Norris Dam” (#46);“Downtown Skyport, Foot of Wall Street, East River” (#50).