Dorothea Lange - Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II New York Wednesday, October 9, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, 1998

  • Exhibited

    The Bitter Years: Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans, Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, 19 October 2022 – 29 April 2023; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, 8 September 2023 – 14 January 2024

  • Catalogue Essay

    The full caption on the label on the reverse of this print reads: 'Truck being loaded as it goes down the rows. The pickers pick the potatoes from the ground and put them in the sack which is suspended from their waists between their knees - after the machine has dug them from the ground. This work requires endurance but no special skill. 1937 wages - 40¢ an hour. Shafter, California. May, 1937.'

108

Potato picking, Shafter, California

1937
Gelatin silver print.
7 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (18.7 x 19.1 cm)
Inscribed '163468-E' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount; typed caption affixed to the reverse of the gray board mount.

Estimate
$7,000 - 9,000 

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Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation Part II

New York Auction 9 October 2024