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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 and numbered '89/100' in pencil, stamped photographer's credit in ink (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 36 x 28 7/8 in. (91.4 x 73.3 cm.)
mount: 49 x 40 in. (124.4 x 101.6 cm.)
This work is number eighty-nine from an edition of one-hundred.
Provenance
Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc., New York;
to Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles;
acquired from the above by 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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