Berenice Abbott - Photographs New York Thursday, April 8, 2021 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Sotheby's, New York, 30 March 2009, lot 55

  • Literature

    Abbott and McCausland, Changing New York, pl. 22
    Abbott and McCausland, New York in the Thirties, pl. 22
    Yochelson, Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, Lower East Side, pl. 6
    O'Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer, p. 97

239

'El,' Second and Third Avenue Lines: Bowery and Division Street, Manhattan

1936
Gelatin silver print.
9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (25.1 x 20 cm)
'50 Commerce Street,' 'Changing New York' credit stamps and notations in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $11,970

Contact Specialist

Sarah Krueger
Head of Department, Photographs

Vanessa Hallett
Worldwide Head of Photographs and Deputy Chairman, Americas

 

Photographs

New York Auction 8 April 2021