May 08, 2025 - Sale 2703

Sale 2703 - Lot 66

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE (1904-1971)
Self-Portrait with Erskine Caldwell. 1940-41.
Toned silver print, the image measuring 6⅜x5 inches (16.2x12.7 cm.).

Reproduced
Sean Callahn, editor. The Photographs of Margaret Bourke-White (New York: Bonanza Books, 1972), p.15

Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell collaborated on several books. They were married in 1939 and divorced in 1942. They issued this image on a card for Christmas in 1941, prior to their separation.