Jan 25, 2024 - Sale 2657

Sale 2657 - Lot 134

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)/MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910-1990)


Two photographs of the Rex Theatre for Colored People, Leland, Mississippi, by Lange and Wolcott.
Silver prints, the Lange image measuring 197x187 mm; 7¾x7⅜ inches, the mount 355x279 mm; 14x11 inches, with Lange's credit and the title in pencil in an unknown hand on mount verso; the Wolcott image measuring 190x241 mm; 7½x9½ inches, the sheet slightly larger, with the Library of Congress stamp and numeric notations in pencil in an unknown hand on verso. June 1937 and November 1939; printed 1960s.

Reproduced: Alona Pardo and Jilke Golbach, Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing (Prestel, 2018), p.129