Oct 15, 2015 - Sale 2393

Sale 2393 - Lot 125

Price Realized: $ 20,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000
LANGE, DOROTHEA (1895-1965)
"Migrant Mother." Silver print, 13 1/2x10 1/4 inches (34.3x26 cm), with various numeric notations on verso. 1936; printed 1970s
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Originally from the Collection of Thomas E. Curran III.

A rare oversized print of Lange's iconic Depression-era image. The photograph was printed by General Graphics, a Bay Area-based laboratory house, which Lange employed to produce her photographic prints.

The firm had first produced the photographs for Lange's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, in 1966, in which another, earlier print of this image was featured.

A letter from Paula B. Freedman, which accompanies the photograph and is dated August 27, 2012, indicates that this photograph "was acquired by my late husband, Thomas E. Curran III, in the late 1970s, from General Graphics, the authorized printers of photographs from Lange's negatives. Tom was a photographer as well as the curator of photographs in the Oakland Museum History Department. "

Dorothea Lange , p. 25.

Celebrating a Collection: The Work of Dorothea Lange, p. 61.

Dorothea Lange: Photographs of a Lifetime, p. 77.

Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, pl. 1.

The Photographs of Dorothea Lange, p. 45.

American Photography 1890-1965, p. 148.

Dorothea Lange: The Human Face (Aosta, 1998), p. 99

Dorothea Lange: The Heart and Mind of a Photographer, p. 133.

Dorothea Lange 55, cover and unpaginated.