Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama (Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife)
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October 21, 06:24 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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1,100 USD
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Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Walker Evans
1903 - 1975
Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama (Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife)
gelatin silver print
9½ by 7½ in.
24.1 by 19.1 cm.
Executed in 1936, printed in 1971 by James Dow.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Natalie Alford at Natalie.Alford@sothebys.com.
Acquired from the photographer in 1971 by the present owner
James Agee, Let us Now Praise Famous Men, Boston, 1972 edition of the 1941 original, p. 3, illustrated
Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, New York, 1973, no. 250, illustrated
Walker Evans: First and Last, New York, 1978, p. 73, illustrated
Walker Evans at Work, New York, 1982, p. 127, illustrated
Walker Evans: American Photographs, New York, 1988, pl. 14, illustrated
Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye, New York, 1993, no. 52, pp. 177 and 202, illustrated
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, Malibu, 1995, no. 533, p. 165, illustrated
Jeff L. Rosenheim and Douglas Eklund, Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology, Zürich, 2000, p. 180, illustrated
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2000, no. 39, p. 62, illustrated
Walker Evans, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000, frontispiece and no. 89, illustrated
Christian A. Peterson, Walker Evans: The Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2003, no. 66, p. 79, illustrated
John T. Hill, Walker Evans: Lyric Documentary, Gottingen, 2006, pp. 177 and 223, illustrated
Rebecca Roberts ed., Walker Evans: American Photographs, New York, 2019, pl. 14, illustrated
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