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The Collection of Sybil Shainwald

Dorothea Lange

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

Auction Closed

May 20, 08:59 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Collection of Sybil Shainwald

Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965


Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

the photographer's 1163 Euclid Avenue Berkeley California stamp (on the reverse)

gelatin silver print

12 ½ by 9 ½ in.

31.8 by 24.1 cm.

Executed in 1936, probably printed in the 1940s.

Collection of the photographer, Berkeley

Private Collection, Berkeley (acquired from the above in the 1940s)

By descent through family

Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, with Galerie zur Stockeregg, Zurich (acquired from the above circa 1993-96)

Acquired from the above in 1996 by the present owner

Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, New York, 1978, p. 213, illustrated

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

Dorothea Lange, Photographs of a Lifetime, New York, 1982, p. 77, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Chicago, Edwynn Houk Gallery, Dorothea Lange: Eloquent Witness, 1989, p. 37, illustrated

Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, 1994, no. 43, illustrated

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, New York, 1996, p. 45, illustrated

Dorothea Lange, The Human Face, Paris, 1998, p. 99, illustrated

Mark Durden, Dorothea Lange 55, London, 2001, p. 39, illustrated and on the cover

Judith Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Los Angeles, 2002, no. 13, p. 33, illustrated

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

Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, Berkeley, 2005, p. 240, fig. 21, illustrated

Linda Gordon, "Dorothea Lange's Oregon Photography," Oregon Historical Quarterly, vol. 110, Winter 2009, no. 4, p. 571, illustrated

Linda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: Aperture Masters of Photography, New York, 2014, p. 31, illustrated

Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, New York, 2018, p. 3, illustrated and on the cover

Exh. Cat., New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, 2019, p. 135, illustrated and as a frontispiece