Dorothea Lange - Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two - Online Auction New York Wednesday, March 29, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Lange’s extensive typed caption on the reverse of the photograph reads: 'The face and the environment of a Mexican-American. He works in the fields of Southern Arizona.’ This photograph is one of a sequence of five images on this subject, and Lange’s hand-drawn diagram on the reverse indicates that the image offered here is first in the sequence. 

       

    The photographs in Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two were in the photographer’s collection at the time of her death and thenceforth passed to her descendants. The images represent the entirety of Lange’s career as one of the foremost documentary photographers of the 20th century, from work made before her engagement with the Resettlement Administration, later the Farm Security Administration, in the 1930s, to the travel photography that absorbed her in her final years, as well as more personal images of her family. Each print bears a Family Collection stamp on the reverse.

     

    • Provenance

      Collection of Dorothea Lange
      By descent to the present owners

    • Literature

      Pardo Alona and Jilke Golbach, eds., Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing, p. 87 (variant cropping)

Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two

1

Migratory Cotton Pickers, Eloy, Arizona

1940
Gelatin silver print.
7 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (18.7 x 23.8 cm)
Typed label with extensive caption, the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue Berkeley 8 California Landscape 4-3880' address, sequence diagram in blue pencil and a family collection stamp on the reverse of the flush-mount.

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Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two - Online Auction

29 March - 5 April 2023