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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 1, 2018 | Lempertz | Cologne | Photography | 84 | $****** - ****** | Fifth Avenue Houses # 4, 6, 8 |
photographs
19.1 x 24.3 cm (7.52 x 9.57 in)
Vintage or early gelatin silver print
Signed, dated, titled, negative number in pencil and photographer's stamp on the verso
Zur Stockeregg Gallery, Zurich
private property, Northern Germany
Bonnie Yochelson, Berenice Abbott. Changing New York. Photographien aus den 30er Jahren, New York 1997, ill. p. 181; Gaëlle Morel (ed.), Berenice Abbott. Photographs, exhib.cat. Jeu de Paume, Paris et al., New Haven et al., 2012, ill. p. 98
Inspired by the work of her great role model Eugène Atget (lots 21-23), whose systematic photographic survey of the city of Paris she got to know during her stay in the French metropolis in the 1920s and of whose estate she became custodian after his death in 1927, Berenice Abbott embarked on her own major project after her return to the United States: the comprehensive documentation of New York, which underwent rapid change in the years following the depression. She called her endeavour “Changing New York”, which was sponsored by the Federal Art Project (FAP), a municipally financed support program for artists, from 1935 onwards. The response Abbott received with her factual-documentary photography always meeting highly aesthetic demands, was considerable: in October 1937, 111 photographs from "Changing New York" were exhibited at the "Museum of the City of New York"; in 1939 the project was published in book form under the same title. One of the best-known photographs of the series, the photograph of the block of buildings on 5th Avenue, which rises centrally above the street as a solitaire saturated with contrast, is available here as an earlier, in other words equally rare and fine-toned print.
Berenice Abbott
Springfield/OH 1898 - 1991 Monson/ME
Fifth Avenue Houses # 4, 6, 8
1936
Vintage or early gelatin silver print. 19.1 x 24.3 cm. Signed, dated, titled, negative number in pencil and photographer's stamp on the verso. - Small crease upper right, along the edges here and there slightly bumped. Matted and framed.
