Sold for €1,400
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