Lot 242
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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BERENICE ABBOTT
BERENICE ABBOTT

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BERENICE ABBOTT

Portraits in Palladium: Paris - New York (1926 - 1929)

East Rutherford, NJ and New York: Commerce Graphics with Lunn, LTD., 1989. 11 palladium prints, hand-coated on Strathmore bristol. Printed to the photographer's specifications by Jim Frank in the studio of Tom Caravaglia, New York. Each print signed and numbered in pencil on the recto with the photographer's initials embossed in the margin. Each numbered in pencil and titled with credit stamp on the reverse of the overmat. Introduction by Hank O'Neal. Signed and numbered in ink on the justification page. Number 1 from an edition of 29. Natural linen and gold embossed green and grey leather spine portfolio case.

Lot Essay

This example, the first in the edition, was Abbott's personal copy. As a gesture of gratitude, she signed each print - the only copy in the edition to have each print signed - for the executor of the estate. Every other number in the edition was signed on the colophon only. In addition, of the twenty nine portfolios produced, only twenty seven exist. Two were destroyed in a flood of the publisher's office.