Oct 31, 2024 - Sale 2684

Sale 2684 - Lot 69

Unsold
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)
Grayson, San Joaquin Valley, California (Death in the Doorway). 1938; printed circa 1950s.
Silver print, the image measuring 7⅝x9⅝ inches (19.4x24.4 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with the notation "Grayson, Calif." in Paul Taylor's hand in blue ink on verso.

Provenance
The Artist; by descent to John Dixon, the artist's son; to a Private Collector

Reproduced
Dorothea Lange (MoMA, 1966), p. 41 (variant cropping); Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Hallmark Cards & Harry N. Abrams, 1995), p. 53 (variant cropping); Keller, In Focus. Dorothea Lange (The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002), pl. 17; Pardo, editor, Dorothea Lange. Politics of Seeing (Prestal & Barbican), p. 139 (variant cropping)