May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 55

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(THE HIGH PRIESTESS OF ANARCHY)
Portrait of Emma Goldman (1869-1940) after her arrest. 1916.
Silver print, the image measuring 5½x3⅝ inches (14x9.2 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Goldman's name in the negative and a typed caption and date (partially obscured), a press stamp (also partially obscured), Culver Pictures stamps, and the Culver Pictures label and barcode, on verso.

"I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." Emma Goldman in autobiography Living My Life. A well-known activist and public speaker, Goldman spent her days campaigning for legalized birth control, freedom of expression, equality, independence for women, radical education, union organization, and workers' rights.