Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

128 c BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991) Fifth Avenue Houses, #4, 6, 8. Silver print, the image measuring 18 1 / 4 x23 1 / 4 inches (46.4x59.1 cm.), the mount 30 1 / 2 x36 1 / 2 inches (77.5x92.7 cm.), with Abbott’s signature and edition notation 58/60, in pencil, on mount recto, and with her Berenice Abbott’s New York hand stamp on mount verso. 1936; printed 1979 [5,000/7,500] Acquired Christie’s East, November 11, 1981, lot 233; to a Private New York Collector. O’Neal, Berenice Abbott (Artpress), p. 108; Van Haaften, Berenice Abbott, Photographer: A Modern Vision (New York Public Library), pl. 32; Abbott, New York in the Thirties (Dover Publications), pl. 48; Yochelson, Greenwich Village , pl. 42. 128 129