Jan 30, 2025 - Sale 2692

Sale 2692 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500

WALKER EVANS (1903 - 1975)


Home of Floyd Burroughs, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama. 1936; printed 1970s.
Silver print, the image measuring 191x241 mm; 7½x9½ inches, the sheet slightly larger, with Evans' credit and a notation in pencil in an unknown hand, on verso.

Provenance
Phillips, New York, October 8, 2010, lot 147; to the Present Owner

Reproduced
James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, pl. 5; Hambourg, Walker Evans, p. 93 (there titled Burroughs Family Cabin, Hale County, Alabama)