Oct 21, 2008 - Sale 2158

Sale 2158 - Lot 82

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
(EVANS, WALKER) (1903-1975)
"Alabama Tenant Farmer Wife" [Allie Mae Burroughs]. Silver contact print, 9 1/2x7 3/4 inches (24.1x19.6 cm.), with John Hill's signature, date, and notations "from Evans' original negative" on verso. 1936; printed circa 1978
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Additional Details

Walker Evans, American Photographs, 14 (variant).

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 3.

John Hill was the executor of Walker Evans's estate, which is now housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The photograph was made under Hill's supervision.