12th Oct, 2019 16:00

OstLicht Photo Auction Autumn 2019

 
  Lot 62
 

HORACE BRISTOL (1908–1997)
Grapes of Wrath - Family Album, 1938

Sold for €1,400


Lot details

Estimate: € 2.000–2.400

Gelatin silver print, printed in the 1970s

17,8 x 14,4 cm

Signed by the photographer in pencil on the reverse

"When this photograph was taken, both Steinbeck and I felt it represented a Madonna figure, with the newborn baby at its mother's swelling breasts, a faint suggestion of proud fatherhood in the background legs and hand." (Horace Bristol)

He later titled this picture Rose of Sharon after Steinbeck's fictitious character.

Start price: €1.400