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

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  • “She is both a humanitarian and an artist.”
    —Ansel Adams, 1934

    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

    • Exhibited

      Dorothea Lange, The Human Face, Aosta, Rotterdam, Aachen 1998-1999.

    • Literature

      Naomi Rosenblum, Sally Stein, et al., Dorothea Lange: The Human Face, p. 86
      Elizabeth Partridge, Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life, p. 133, pl. 6.41
      Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, p. 234 (variant cropping)

Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection, Part Two

47

Mother and Child, Vietnam

circa 1958
Gelatin silver print.
13 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. (34 x 26 cm)
'Dorothea Lange: The Human Face' exhibition label and a family collection stamp on the mat back-board.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

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

29 March - 5 April 2023