Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Dorothea Lange
Ma Burnham, Conroy, Arkansas
Lot closes
October 21, 06:20 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
Current Bid
600 USD
9 Bids
No reserve
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Description
Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit its Acquisitions Program
Dorothea Lange
1895 - 1965
Ma Burnham, Conroy, Arkansas
numerical notations and stamp and a typed caption label for Six Women Photographers (on the reverse)
ferrotyped gelatin silver print
9½ by 7⅝ in.
24.1 by 19.4 cm.
Executed in 1938, printed in 1949.
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 1949 by the present owner
Dorothea Lange Looks at the American Country Woman, Forth Worth, 1968, p. 67, illustrated
Paul Taylor, An American Exodus: a record of human erosion, Paris, 1999, p. 151, illustrated
Pierre Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, Boston, 2002, p. 147, illustrated
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2019, p. 167, illustrated
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