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Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

Lot Closed

October 7, 02:12 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California


gelatin silver print, the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1936, printed circa 1950

image: 13 ½ by 10 ½ in. (34.3 by 26.7 cm.)

frame: 27 ½ by 23 ½ in. (69.9 by 59.7 cm.)

Collection of John Dixon, the photographer's son

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2002

John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange (The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 25

Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 61

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 77

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

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 45

Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 (The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 148

Dorothea Lange: The Human Face (Aosta, 1998), p. 99

Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 133

Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange 55 (New York, 2001), cover and unpaginated

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