Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 79

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500

HORACE BRISTOL (1908 - 1997)


Joad Family Applying for Relief (The Grapes of Wrath). 1938; printed circa 1990.
Silver print, the image measuring 340x267 mm; 13⅜x10½ inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Bristol's signature in pencil on verso, and his block-lettered signature and negative date in pencil on the overmat, and a typed label with caption information, and his signature and edition notation in ink on the undermat verso.

Provenance
Stephen Cohen Gallery, LA; to the Collection of Neil Robert Berzak

This photograph was taken while accompanying John Steinbeck in the central valley of California collecting material for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. This print is limited to an edition of 50.