James Joyce
1928
Berenice Abbott
Artist, American, 1898 - 1991

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 23.6 × 18.3 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.)
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Accession Number
2020.65.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Berenice Abbott, New York. Condé Nast Archive, New York, c. 1933. (sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 3 October 2001, lot 79). (sale, Phillips, New York, 4 April 2017, lot 117). (Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco); NGA purchase, 2020.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, top left in blue crayon underlined: 58; top left in graphite inverted: 36; top center in graphite: James Joyce; top right: E; upper left stamped in black ink: Photographer / Date Sitting / Where Taken / Subject / Model [by unknown hand in black ink: James Joyce] / Issue Published [by unknown hand in black ink: July 1933]; center left Conde Nast copyright stamp in black ink; center stamped in purple ink: CREDIT PHOTOGRAPHER / IN REPRODUCTION / PHOTO / BERNICE ABBOTT / 1 W. 67th ST., N. Y. C.; by unknown hand, center right in red crayon: 9770; lower left in graphite circled: VF / 798a; lower right: 3; bottom center: MBA01297; bottom right barcode label printed in black ink