(DOROTHEA LANGE) (1895 1965) White Angel Breadline

Sale 2499 - Lot 67

Price Realized: $ 12,500

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Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

(DOROTHEA LANGE) (1895-1965)
White Angel Breadline. Silver print, the image measuring 12x8 7/8 inches (30.5x22.5 cm.), the sheet 14x11 inches (35.6x27.9 cm.). 1933; printed 1960s

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From the Collection of the Photographer Dick Swift.

This searing image was apparently Lange's first documentary picture, made as the grip of the Depression tightened. The double-weight paper and fine print quality are similar to the master prints made by Irwin Welcher during this period for Lange.

Elliot, Dorothea Lange (The Museum of Modern Art), unpaginated; Metzner, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), pp. 116-17; Partridge, ed., Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life (Smithsonian Institution Press), p. 105; Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Hallmark Cards/Harry N. Abrams), cover and pp. 20-21; Borhan, Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer (Little, Brown and Co.), pp. 70-71; Keller, In Focus: Dorothea Lange, Photographs in the J. Paul Getty Museum (The J. Paul Getty Museum), p. 19.