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Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection

New York
ConcludedApr 4 2019
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    • 56 Lots

    1
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Profile of a Young Girl from the Tennessee Series
    Estimate
    $15,000 - $25,000
    Sold For
    $106,250
    2
    Dorothea Lange
    Hand of a Young Daughter, Transplanting Sweet Potatoes, Tenant Farmers, Colored, Near Chatham, North Carolina
    Estimate
    $15,000 - $25,000
    Sold For
    $21,250
    3
    Dorothea Lange
    Oklahoma Sharecropper and Family Entering California. Stalled on the Desert Near Indio, California
    Estimate
    $15,000 - $25,000
    Sold For
    $62,500
    4
    Margaret Bourke-White
    Flood Refugees, Louisville, Kentucky
    Estimate
    $150,000 - $250,000
    Sold For
    $400,000
    5
    Marion Post Wolcott
    Shoes, Made of Old Automobile Tires, of Henry Mitchell, FSA client, Greene County, Georgia
    Estimate
    $6,000 - $8,000
    Sold For
    $6,000
    6
    Marion Post Wolcott
    Vegetable Pickers, Migrants, Waiting After Work to be Paid, Near Homestead, Florida
    Estimate
    $6,000 - $8,000
    Sold For
    $8,750
    7
    Dorothea Lange
    A Sign of the Times–Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco
    Estimate
    $60,000 - $80,000
    Sold For
    $125,000
    8
    Tina Modotti
    Telephone Wires, Mexico
    Estimate
    $250,000 - $350,000
    Sold For
    $692,000
    9
    Tina Modotti
    Campesinos
    Estimate
    $150,000 - $250,000
    Sold For
    $125,000
    10
    Consuelo Kanaga
    School Girl (St. Croix)
    Estimate
    $6,000 - $8,000
    Sold For
    $10,625
    11
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Two Hands
    Estimate
    $10,000 - $15,000
    Sold For
    $27,500
    12
    Edward Weston
    Circus Tent
    Estimate
    $400,000 - $600,000
    Sold For
    $788,000
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    13
    Alma Lavenson
    Self Portrait
    Estimate
    $8,000 - $12,000
    Sold For
    $10,000
    14
    Alma Lavenson
    Glass Study
    Estimate
    $20,000 - $30,000
    Sold For
    $27,500
    15
    Edward Steichen
    Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France
    Estimate
    $400,000 - $600,000
    Sold For
    $524,000
    16
    Alma Lavenson
    Iris
    Estimate
    $15,000 - $25,000
    Sold For
    $18,750
    17
    Edward Steichen
    Magnolia Blossoms, Voulangis, France
    Estimate
    $40,000 - $60,000
    Sold For
    $60,000
    18
    Alma Lavenson
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Estimate
    $3,000 - $5,000
    Sold For
    $3,750
    19
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Camellia in Water
    Estimate
    $5,000 - $7,000
    Sold For
    $12,500
    20
    Alma Lavenson
    Auratum Lily
    Estimate
    $10,000 - $15,000
    Sold For
    $12,500
    21
    Edward Weston
    Palm Trunk, Cuernavaca
    Estimate
    $400,000 - $600,000
    Sold For
    $275,000
    22
    Dorothea Lange
    Hoe Culture, Alabama Tenant Farmer Near Anniston
    Estimate
    $6,000 - $8,000
    Sold For
    $13,750
    23
    Dorothea Lange
    Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
    Estimate
    $100,000 - $150,000
    Sold For
    $337,500
    24
    Dorothea Lange
    Undernourished Cotton Picker’s Child, Strike Meeting, Kern County, California
    Estimate
    $7,000 - $9,000
    Sold For
    $11,250
    25
    Dorothea Lange
    Daughter of a Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner, Living in American River Camp Near Sacramento, California
    Estimate
    $8,000 - $12,000
    Sold For
    $16,250
    26
    Consuelo Kanaga
    She is a Tree of Life to Them
    Estimate
    $10,000 - $15,000
    Sold For
    $17,500
    27
    Dorothea Lange
    White Angel Breadline
    Estimate
    $100,000 - $150,000
    Sold For
    $200,000
    28
    Tina Modotti
    Labor 1 or Hands Washing
    Estimate
    $80,000 - $120,000
    29
    Edward Weston
    Ollas, Oaxaca
    Estimate
    $200,000 - $300,000
    Sold For
    $125,000
    30
    Edward Weston
    Piramide del Sol
    Estimate
    $100,000 - $150,000
    31
    Alma Lavenson
    Easter Lily
    Estimate
    $7,000 - $9,000
    Sold For
    $11,250
    32
    Alma Lavenson
    Water Lilies
    Estimate
    $12,000 - $18,000
    Sold For
    $15,000
    33
    Tina Modotti
    Roses, Mexico
    Estimate
    $300,000 - $500,000
    Sold For
    $220,000
    34
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Annie Mae Merriweather
    Estimate
    $7,000 - $9,000
    Sold For
    $30,000
    35
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Annie Mae Merriweather
    Estimate
    $7,000 - $9,000
    Sold For
    $20,000
    36
    Imogen Cunningham
    Calla
    Estimate
    $250,000 - $350,000
    Sold For
    $350,000
    37
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Imogen Cunningham
    Estimate
    $2,000 - $3,000
    Sold For
    $1,750
    38
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Sunflower
    Estimate
    $4,000 - $6,000
    Sold For
    $8,125
    39
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Mother and Son (The Question, Florida)
    Estimate
    $6,000 - $8,000
    Sold For
    $33,750
    40
    Imogen Cunningham
    Magnolia Blossom ('Formen Einer Blume')
    Estimate
    $100,000 - $150,000
    Sold For
    $100,000
    41
    Tina Modotti
    Woman Carrying Olla
    Estimate
    $60,000 - $80,000
    Sold For
    $75,000
    42
    Tina Modotti
    Edward Weston with Camera
    Estimate
    $25,000 - $35,000
    Sold For
    $25,000
    43
    Edward Weston
    Tina Modotti
    Estimate
    $200,000 - $300,000
    Sold For
    $250,000
    44
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Frances (with Daisies)
    Estimate
    $4,000 - $6,000
    Sold For
    $5,000
    45
    Consuelo Kanaga
    Portrait of Kenneth Spencer
    Estimate
    $6,000 - $8,000
    Sold For
    $16,250
    46
    Dorothea Lange
    A Negro Boy Who Wants to go to High School, His Father is a Sharecropper near Earle, Arkansas
    Estimate
    $10,000 - $15,000
    Sold For
    $33,750
    47
    Dorothea Lange
    Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama
    Estimate
    $25,000 - $35,000
    Sold For
    $40,000
    48
    Dorothea Lange
    Mother and Children on the Road, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California
    Estimate
    $10,000 - $15,000
    Sold For
    $55,000
    49
    Dorothea Lange
    People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma
    Estimate
    $5,000 - $7,000
    Sold For
    $10,625
    50
    Dorothea Lange
    Portrait of a Boy, Mississippi Delta
    Estimate
    $10,000 - $15,000
    Sold For
    $12,500
    51
    Dorothea Lange
    Turpentine Worker, DuPont, Georgia
    Estimate
    $5,000 - $7,000
    Sold For
    $13,750
    52
    Dorothea Lange
    Utah Harvest
    Estimate
    $2,000 - $3,000
    Sold For
    $5,250
    53
    Dorothea Lange
    Unemployment Benefits Aid Begins, San Francisco
    Estimate
    $7,000 - $9,000
    Sold For
    $16,250
    56
    Dorothea Lange
    Pledge of Allegiance at Raphael Weill Elementary School a Few Weeks Prior to Evacuation, San Francisco
    Estimate
    $15,000 - $25,000
    Sold For
    $38,750
    57
    Dan Budnik
    Selected Images of the Selma to Montgomery Marches
    Estimate
    $6,000 - $8,000
    Sold For
    $7,500
    58
    Helen Levitt
    Boy with Gun
    Estimate
    $10,000 - $15,000
    Sold For
    $25,000