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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991)
Nightview, New York at Night, Empire State Building, 1932
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed later
signed in pencil (mount, recto); stamped photographer's 'Abbot, Maine' copyright credit (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 1938 x 1538 in. (49.2 x 39 cm.)
mount: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.9 cm.)
Provenance
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach;
by descent to the present owner.
Literature
Martha A. Sandweiss, Masterworks of American Photography: The Amon Carter Museum Collection, Fort Worth, 1982, pl. 90.
Berenice Abbott, Berenice Abbott, Commerce Graphics LTD, Inc., New Jersey, 1988, frontispiece.
Hank O'Neal, Berenice Abbott, New York, Vol.2, Steidl, Göttingen, 2008, cover, frontispiece and p. 35.
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