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Dorothea Lange

Mended Stockings, San Francisco

Auction Closed

May 2, 05:08 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965

Mended Stockings, San Francisco

gelatin silver print, the photographer's '1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' stamp on the reverse, framed, 1936, probably printed in the 1940s

image: 13⅜ by 10½ in. (34 by 26.7 cm.)

frame: 20⅞ by 16⅞ in. (53 by 42.9 cm.)

Collection of the photographer

By descent through family

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2005

Therese Thau Heyman, Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange (The Oakland Museum, 1978), p. 26

Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness (Chicago: Edwynn Houk Gallery, 1989), frontispiece

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