Feb 04, 2021 - Sale 2557

Sale 2557 - Lot 43A

Price Realized: $ 3,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800

(DOROTHEA LANGE) (1895-1965)


Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest, Oregon.
Silver print, the image measuring 254x342.9 mm; 10x13 1/2 inches, the sheet slightly larger, with a Library of Congress hand stamp and Lange's credit, title, date, and additional numeric notations, in ink, in an unknown hand, on verso. 1939; printed 1980s.

Additional Details

In the full caption of this work, Lange included "Note social security number tattooed on his arm."