Dec 13, 2007 - Sale 2132

Sale 2132 - Lot 351A

Price Realized: $ 4,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
DISFARMER, MIKE (1894-1959)
Portrait of three children. Silver print, 4 1/2x3 inches (11.4x7.6 cm.), with notations, in an unidentified hand, on verso; tipped to a contemporary mount with "Original Disfarmer Photograph" printed on mount verso. Circa 1938
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Mike Disfarmer was born in the small town of Heber Springs, Arkansas, where he operated a portrait studio from the 1920s-50s. An authentic American eccentric, this folk artist-cum-photographer recorded the locals of his mountain village--families, laborers, siblings, friends, and couples alike--with remarkable aesthetic consistency. Although little is known about Disfarmer''s personal life and influences, critics have hailed his curious black-and-white portraits as "works of artistic genius."