8th May, 2020 17:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Spring 2020

 
Lot 39
 

DOROTHEA LANGE (1895–1965)
‘Migrant Mother’, California 1936

Sold for €4,000


Lot details

Estimate: € 5.000–6.000

2 Gelatin silver prints, printed in the 1990s

each c. 34 x 26 cm

One annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse, the image “Migrant Mother (Florence Thompson) with child at her breast, California 1936” stamped with a Library of Congress stamp on the reverse, also annotated in an unidentified hand in pencil on the reverse

This photograph is widely reproduced, including the following titles: George P. Elliot (ed.), Dorothea Lange. Doubleday, New York, 1966, p. 25; Milton Meltzer (ed.), Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life, New York, 1978, p. 213; Robert Coles (ed.), Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, New York 1982, s.p.; Elizabeth Partridge (ed.), Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life, Washington 1994, p. 108; Keith F. Davis (ed.), The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, Kansas City 1995, p. 45.

Start price: €2.400