Berenice Abbott
(1898-1991)
André Gide, rue de Bac, Paris 1928
(1898-1991)
André Gide, rue de Bac, Paris 1928
Sale 1131 - Photographs
Dec 6, 2022
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Berenice Abbott
(1898-1991)
André Gide, rue de Bac, Paris 1928
(1898-1991)
André Gide, rue de Bac, Paris 1928
Gelatin silver print, printed 1982, signed in pencil on the mount; Maine credit in pencil on the verso.
image: 13 3/8 x 10 3/8in. (34 x 26.3cm.)
mount: 15 x 12in. (38.1 x 30.5cm.)
image: 13 3/8 x 10 3/8in. (34 x 26.3cm.)
mount: 15 x 12in. (38.1 x 30.5cm.)
This lot is located in Chicago.
Abbott's atmospheric portrait of French author and Nobel Prize winner André Gide (1969-1951) at home in Paris, highlights his head, face and hands emerging from deep shadow. Abbott included another portrait of Gide in her 1981 portfolio Faces of the Twenties, 1925-1931.
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