Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 137

Price Realized: $ 8,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
ROTHSTEIN, ARTHUR (1915-1985)
Portfolio entitled "Arthur Rothstein," with 8 (of 8) of his best-known F.S.A. photographs. Silver prints, 12x9 inches (30.5x22.9 cm.), and the reverse, with Rothstein's signature, in pencil, on mount recto and a label with the edition size "25," print and portfolio numbers on mount verso. Elephant folio, brown clamshell case with printed title label on front cover; contents loose as issued, colophon. 1935-1939; printed 1976

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"Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, Cimarron County, Oklahoma," 1936 "Wife and Child of a Sharecropper, Washington County, Arkansas," 1935 "Interior of Postmaster Brown's Home at Old Rag., Shenandoah National Park, Viriginia," 1935 "The Bleached Skull of a Steer on the Dry Sun-Baked Earth of the South Dakota Bad Lands," 1936 "Girl at Gee's Bend, Alabama," 1937 "Minnie Knox, Widow Living with her Daughter on Farm, Garett County, Maryland," 1937 "Mr. & Mrs. Andy Bahain, FSA Borrowers on their Farm near Kersey, Colorado," 1939 "Hotel de Paris, Georgetown, Colorado," 1939.