A Lovely Large Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott
Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott.
New York: Berenice Abbott, 1932.
ABBOTT, Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Bernice Abbott, 1932.
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[JOYCE, James]. ABBOTT, Berenice. Photographic Portrait of James Joyce by Berenice Abbott. New York: Berenice Abbott, [n.d., taken 1928].
Original gelatin silver print portrait of Joyce, taken by Abbott. Signed by the photographer in pencil in the lower right hand corner of the photograph. Mounted on stiff board. Abbott's stamp with her "50 Commerce Street NY" address on the verso of the mount. Image size: 13 x 10 1/8 inches; 330 x 260 mm. Some minor sunning around the perimeter of the photo. A tiny bit of scuffing to top and bottom edges. Otherwise about fine. This is the largest photo we can find of Joyce for the Commerce St. address. Swann Galleries who has had this photo before states "Circa 1932."
This is a lovely and well-know portrait of author James Joyce. He is seated in Abbott's studio with a cane, wearing a hat and his signature round-framed glasses. "[Abbott] photographed Joyce on two occasions, the first in 1926 at his home in Paris and the second two years later in her studio. At the time of the sitting Joyce was struggling with teeth and eye problems and was struggling through completion of one of his best-known works, Finnegan's Wake."
"Berenice Alice Abbott (July 17, 1898 – December 9, 1991) was an American photographer best known for her portraits of cultural figures of the interwar period, New York City photographs of architecture and urban design of the 1930s, and science interpretation of the 1940s to the 1960s." (Wikipedia) Abbott lived at 50 Commerce St. in NYC with her partner, the influential art critic Elizabeth McCausland, from 1935 to 1965.
HBS 69434.
$6,000.
Price: $6,000.00
Item #69434