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Dorothea Lange

Hoboken/New Jersey 1895 – 1965 Marin County/California

Migrant Mother. 1936

Gelatin silver print, ca. 1980. 24 × 19,2 cm (25,2 × 20,3 cm) (9 ½ × 7 ½ in. (9 ⅞ × 8 in.)).
This picture shows the following artwork: Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother. 1936.

Estimate:

EUR 1,500

 

- 2,500

Sold for:

2,286 EUR (incl. premium)

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Gelatin silver print, ca. 1980. 24 × 19,2 cm (25,2 × 20,3 cm) (9 ½ × 7 ½ in. (9 ⅞ × 8 in.)). Stamp: “REPRODUCTED FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS” on the reverse as well as inscribed in pencil by an unknown hand, including negative no.

Pierre Borhan: Dorothea Lange. The Heart and Mind of a Photographer. Boston, New York, London 2002, p. 133 / exh. cat.: Dorothea Lange. Politics of seeing. London, Barbican Centre; Paris, Jeu de Paume, 2018/19, p: 20, 24 (there ill. in: US Camera 1936 and in: Survey Graphic, September 1936) and p. 101 / exh. cat.: Dorothea Lange. Words & Pictures. New York, MoMA, 2020, p. 53 (there ill. in: Land of the Free, p. 8), p. 135, p. 137 (there ill. in: Popular Photography 46, No. 12 (February 1960), p. 43), p. 138 (there ill. in: San Francisco News, March 11, 1936), p. 139 (there ill. of the Farm Security Administration log sheet, 1936-40), p. 142 (there ill. in: Survey Graphic 25, No. 9 (September 1936) and ill. in: Bulletin of The Museum of Modern Art 8, No. 2, Dez.-Jan. 1940-41, p. 11), p 143 (there: ill. Library of Congress file card and titled: Destitute peapickers in California; a 32 year old mother of seven children, February, 1936 [sic]), p. 144-145 (there ill. in: Modern Photography 16, No. 12 (December 1952), p. 69)

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