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2065

Russell Lee

Ottawa/Illinois 1903 – 1986 Austin, Texas

Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transsylvania, Louisiana. 1939

Later gelatin silver print of the Library of Congress, Washington. 18,2 × 24,2 cm (20,6 × 25,4 cm) (7 ⅛ × 9 ½ in. (8 ⅛ × 10 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Russell Lee. Negro mother teaching children numbers and alphabet in home of sharecropper, Transsylvania, Louisiana. 1939.

Estimate:

EUR 400

 

- 600

USD 427

 

- 640

Sold for:

1,625 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

Photography, Wednesday, 31.05.2017

Information

Later gelatin silver print of the Library of Congress, Washington. 18,2 × 24,2 cm (20,6 × 25,4 cm) (7 ⅛ × 9 ½ in. (8 ⅛ × 10 in.)). On the reverse the stamp: „Reproduced from the collection of the Library of Congress" and a gallery stamp as well as inscribed and numbered in pencil by various hands.

Formerly Gallery Taube, Berlin

Gallery Taube, Berlin (ed.): USA 1935–1943. Photographien für die FSA von Walker Evans, Russell Lee, Marion P. Wolcott. Berlin 1976, unpaginated / Forrest Jack Hurley: Russell Lee. Photographer. Dobbs Ferry 1978, p. 69

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