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Dorothea Lange

White Angel Breadline, San Francisco

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965

White Angel Breadline, San Francisco


gelatin silver print, title and date in pencil and with the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California, Telephone Landscape 4-3880' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1933, printed circa 1950

image: 10⅜ by 8¾ in. (26.4 by 22.2 cm.)

frame: 20¾ by 16¾ in. (52.7 by 42.5 cm.)

Collection of the photographer

Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, deaccessioned in 2002

Private collection, New York

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2006

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Inaugural Exhibition, March – June 2010

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022

Looking Back: Ten Years at Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 225 (this print)

Willard Van Dyke, 'The Photographs of Dorothea Lange- A Critical Analysis,' Camera Craft 41, no. 10, 1934, p. 467

Thomas J. Maloney, U. S. Camera 1935, p. 157

Ansel Adams, How To Do It Series, No. 8: Making a Photograph, An Introduction to Photography (New York, 1935), p. 93

Edward Steichen, ed., The Family of Man (New York, 1955), p. 151

John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 20

Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 57

Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (New York, 1978), p. 117

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 45

Therese Thau Heyman, Sandra S. Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1994), pl. 1

Elizabeth Partridge, Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Washington, D. C., 1994), p. 105

Karen Tsujimoto, Dorothea Lange, Archive of an Artist (Oakland Museum, 1995), p. 9

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), cover and p. 21

Dorothea Lange, The Human Face (Paris, 1998), p. 45

Barbara Haskell, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), pl. 483

Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange (London, 2001), p. 17

Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 71

Judith Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002), pl. 4

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 2005), cover

Dorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of Photography (Aperture, 2014), p. 13

Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019), p. 27