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Dorothea Lange

Hoboken/New Jersey 1895 – 1965 Marin County/California

Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees, San Fernando, California, June. 1935

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 17,7 × 25 cm (20,3 × 26 cm) (7 × 9 ⅞ in. (8 × 10 ¼ in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Dorothea Lange. Oklahoma Dust Bowl Refugees, San Fernando, California, June. 1935.

Estimate:

EUR 7,000

 

- 9,000

USD 8,140

 

- 10,470

Sold for:

9,375 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn 2021

The Art of Photography, Wednesday, 01.12.2021

Information

Vintage. Gelatin silver print. 17,7 × 25 cm (20,3 × 26 cm) (7 × 9 ⅞ in. (8 × 10 ¼ in.)). Copyright stamp of the „Resettlement Administration" with name of the photographer on the reverse as well as numerical stamp with negative number (twice). Negative number and further numbers by various hands in pencil.

Formerly Pare Lorentz (RA/FSA 1935-36)

New York Times, July 5 1936 (there titled: A Family Unit in the Flight from Drought) / Paul Taylor: Again the Covered Wagon, in: Survey Graphic, Vol. 24, No.7, 1935 (July), p. 349 (there detail and titled: God only knows why we left Texas 'cept my man is in a movin' mood) / Howard M. Lewin and Katherine Northrup (ed.): Dorothea Lange. Farm Administration Photographs: 1935-1939. Glencoe 1980, Vol. 1, p. 133 / Judith Keller (ed.): In Focus. Dorothea Lange. Photographs from The J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles 2002, p. 9 (there titled and dated: Dust Bowl Refugees Reach a ‚Promised Land‘ – California, 1936) / Exh. cat.: Dorothea Lange. Politics of seeing. London, Barbican Centre; Paris, Jeu de Paume, 2018/19, p. 77 / Exh. cat.: Dorothea Lange - words & pictures. New York, MoMA, 2020, p. 43 (there page from 'Migration of Drought Refugees to California' with caption: More Oklahomans reach Calif. Via the cotton fields of Ariz.)

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