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Dorothea Lange

The Road West, New Mexico

Auction Closed

May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965

The Road West, New Mexico


gelatin silver print, the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1938, probably printed in the 1940s

image: 7½ by 9⅜ in. (19.1 by 23.8 cm.)

frame: 17 by 20⅞ in. (43.2 by 53 cm.)

Collection of the photographer

By descent through family

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2005

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 of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2019), p. 229 (this print)

Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion (New York, 1939), p. 65

Dorothea Lange (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966), p. 53

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime (Aperture, 1982), p. 113

Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness (Chicago: Edwynn Houk Gallery, 1989), p. 34

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 37

Therese Heyman, Sandra Phillips, and John Szarkowski, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1995), pl. 12

Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Boston, 2002), p. 151

Judith Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange (Los Angelese: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002), pl. 18

Topographics: Photographs from 1844 to the Present (New York: Bruce Silverstein Photography, 2004), pl. 32

Henry Carroll, Photographers on Photography (London, 2018), p. 9