
The Collection of Sybil Shainwald
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
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