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BERENICE ABBOTT (1898–1991)
Eugène Atget, Paris, 1927
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1930s
signed in pencil (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in. (24.1 x 18.3 cm.)
mount: 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (24.3 x 19 cm.)
Provenance
Gifted by the artist to her friend Paul Katz, Utah;
Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 1988.
Literature
Muriel Rukeyser and David Vestal, Berenice Abbott: Photographs, Horizon Press, New York, 1970, p. 60.
Hank O’Neal, Berenice Abbott: American Photographer, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1982, p. 64
Cheryl Finley, Berenice Abbott, Commerce Graphics Ltd, Inc., New Jersey, 1988, n.p.
Hank O'Neal, Berenice Abbott: Portraits, Vol. 1., Steidl, Göttingen, 2008, p. 65.

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