LOT Phillips de Pury & Company  /  PHOTOGRAPHS PART II  / 

81

BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) HOUSES, FIFTH AVENUE No. 4, 6, 8 signed

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD
BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) HOUSES, FIFTH AVENUE No. 4, 6, 8 signed
BERENICE ABBOTT (American, 1898-1991) HOUSES, FIFTH AVENUE No. 4, 6, 8 signed "BERENICE ABBOTT" on mount recto in pencil below image inscribed by the artist "sky uneven upper right hand corner" in pencil on verso of mount gelatin silver enlargement print mounted on board 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 in. (26.7 x 34.3 cm) mount: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm) March 1936 printed 1950s PROVENANCE Marlborough Gallery, NEW YORK Private Collection, NEW YORK LITERATURE Elizabeth McCausland, NEW YORK IN THE THIRTIES AS PHOTOGRAPHED BY BERENICE ABBOTT, NEW YORK, 1939/1967, pl. 48 (illustrated) Hank O'Neal, BERENICE ABBOTT: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, NEW YORK, 1982, p. 108 (illustrated) OF PEOPLE AND PLACES: THE FLOYD AND JOSEPHINE SEGEL COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Milwaukee, 1987, p. 15 (illustrated) PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLLECTION OF LASALLE NATIONAL BANK, CHICAGO, 1995, p. 10 (illustrated) Bonnie Yochelson, BERENICE ABBOTT: CHANGING NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1997, p. 136, Greenwich Village section, pl. 42 (illustrated) Abbott considered photographing these buildings for a long time and finally did so when the light emphasized the stark graphic qualities of the architecture. She commented, "People have often talked of this photograph in relation to Edward Hopper, but I didn't even know Hopper at the time. As far as I'm concerned you don't think of anybody when you take a photograph; you simply see the subject and you take it or you don't. People read all kinds of things into my work, and what they say makes me laugh. I like Hopper's work very much and I can see why people draw the analogy here. He has a picture of a man walking across the street, which I found out many years later. But so what?" (O'Neal, BERENICE ABBOTT: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHer, New York, 1982, p. 108).
Sign In to Bookmark Lot