Walker Evans - Photographs New York Thursday, October 4, 2018 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    The artist to a friend and photo-editor, possibly Frances Collins Lindley, circa 1940
    Acquired by Bradley Lemery of Photo West Gallery, San Diego
    Photo West Gallery, San Diego, 1989

  • Exhibited

    Photo West Gallery, San Diego, December 1989

  • Literature

    Evans and Agee, Let us Now Praise Famous Men, pl. 10
    Da Capo Press, Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1936, pl. 260
    Hambourg, Rosenheim, Eklund, Fineman, Walker Evans, pl. 90
    Szarkowski, Walker Evans, p. 82
    Hill, Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary, p. 182

132

Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burroughs’ Home

1936
Gelatin silver print.
9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (23.5 x 15.9 cm)
Resettlement Administration annotation '8133-A' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the verso.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $30,000

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New York Auction 4 October 2018