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2155R

Arthur Rothstein

New York 1915 – 1985 New Rochelle, New York

Aletia Bendolph in log cabin, Gee's Bend, Alabama. 1937

Gelatin silver print, possibly 1981. 22,7 x 30,5 cm (27,7 x 35,5 cm) (8 ⅞ x 12 in. (10 ⅞ x 14 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Arthur Rothstein. Aletia Bendolph in log cabin, Gee's Bend, Alabama. 1937.

Estimate:

EUR 800

 

- 1,200

USD 1,014

 

- 1,520

Sold for:

812 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 229-235

Photographs, Wednesday, 26.11.2014

Information

Gelatin silver print, possibly 1981. 22,7 x 30,5 cm (27,7 x 35,5 cm) (8 ⅞ x 12 in. (10 ⅞ x 14 in.)). Signed in pencil in the margin lower right, lower left the blindstamp: „hp“ (for Hyperion Press). On the reverse stamp: „ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN PHOTOGRAPH from the collection of GRACE ROTHSTEIN“ as well as numbered in pencil by various persons. Possibly from the portfolio: „Arthur Rothstein“, Hyperion Press Ltd., New York 1981.

Arthur Rothstein, The Depression Years, New York 1978, p. 9
Leah Bendavid-Val, Photographie und Propaganda, Die 30er Jahre in den USA und der UdSSR, Zürich 1999, p. 149
Arthur Rothstein, Documentary Classics, ed. Reinhard Schultz, Berlin 2001, p. 10
FSA, The American Vision, ed. Gilles Mora und Beverly W. Brannan, New York 2006, p. 141

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