Provenance
Photo West Gallery, San Diego
Susan Ehrens, Berkeley, 1990
Page Imageworks, San Francisco, as agent
Exhibited
Object Lessons: Masterworks of Modernist Photography from Three Bay Area Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 7 December 1995 - 10 March 1996
Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, 2 May 2016 - 31 January 2017
Literature
Pier 24 Photography, Collected, p. 109 (this print)

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Dorothea Lange

People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma

1936
Gelatin silver print.
7 1/4 x 7 3/8 in. (18.4 x 18.7 cm)

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000

Sold for $10,625

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Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection

New York Auction 4 April 2019

1
Consuelo Kanaga
Profile of a Young Girl from the Tennessee Series
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $106,250
2
Dorothea Lange
Hand of a Young Daughter, Transplanting Sweet Potatoes, Tenant Farmers, Colored, Near Chatham, North Carolina
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $21,250
3
Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma Sharecropper and Family Entering California. Stalled on the Desert Near Indio, California
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $62,500
4
Margaret Bourke-White
Flood Refugees, Louisville, Kentucky
Estimate $150,000 - 250,000
Sold for $400,000
5
Marion Post Wolcott
Shoes, Made of Old Automobile Tires, of Henry Mitchell, FSA client, Greene County, Georgia
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $6,000
6
Marion Post Wolcott
Vegetable Pickers, Migrants, Waiting After Work to be Paid, Near Homestead, Florida
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $8,750
7
Dorothea Lange
A Sign of the Times–Mended Stockings, Stenographer, San Francisco
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $125,000
8
Tina Modotti
Telephone Wires, Mexico
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Sold for $692,000
9
Tina Modotti
Campesinos
Estimate $150,000 - 250,000
Sold for $125,000
10
Consuelo Kanaga
School Girl (St. Croix)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $10,625
11
Consuelo Kanaga
Two Hands
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $27,500
12
Edward Weston
Circus Tent
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $788,000
13
Alma Lavenson
Self Portrait
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $10,000
14
Alma Lavenson
Glass Study
Estimate $20,000 - 30,000
Sold for $27,500
15
Edward Steichen
Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $524,000
16
Alma Lavenson
Iris
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $18,750
17
Edward Steichen
Magnolia Blossoms, Voulangis, France
Estimate $40,000 - 60,000
Sold for $60,000
18
Alma Lavenson
Consuelo Kanaga
Estimate $3,000 - 5,000
Sold for $3,750
19
Consuelo Kanaga
Camellia in Water
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $12,500
20
Alma Lavenson
Auratum Lily
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $12,500
21
Edward Weston
Palm Trunk, Cuernavaca
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $275,000
22
Dorothea Lange
Hoe Culture, Alabama Tenant Farmer Near Anniston
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $13,750
23
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $337,500
24
Dorothea Lange
Undernourished Cotton Picker’s Child, Strike Meeting, Kern County, California
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $11,250
25
Dorothea Lange
Daughter of a Migrant Tennessee Coal Miner, Living in American River Camp Near Sacramento, California
Estimate $8,000 - 12,000
Sold for $16,250
26
Consuelo Kanaga
She is a Tree of Life to Them
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $17,500
27
Dorothea Lange
White Angel Breadline
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $200,000
28
Tina Modotti
Labor 1 or Hands Washing
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
29
Edward Weston
Ollas, Oaxaca
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $125,000
30
Edward Weston
Piramide del Sol
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
31
Alma Lavenson
Easter Lily
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $11,250
32
Alma Lavenson
Water Lilies
Estimate $12,000 - 18,000
Sold for $15,000
33
Tina Modotti
Roses, Mexico
Estimate $300,000 - 500,000
Sold for $220,000
34
Consuelo Kanaga
Annie Mae Merriweather
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $30,000
35
Consuelo Kanaga
Annie Mae Merriweather
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $20,000
36
Imogen Cunningham
Calla
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Sold for $350,000
37
Consuelo Kanaga
Imogen Cunningham
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $1,750
38
Consuelo Kanaga
Sunflower
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $8,125
39
Consuelo Kanaga
Mother and Son (The Question, Florida)
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $33,750
40
Imogen Cunningham
Magnolia Blossom ('Formen Einer Blume')
Estimate $100,000 - 150,000
Sold for $100,000
41
Tina Modotti
Woman Carrying Olla
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $75,000
42
Tina Modotti
Edward Weston with Camera
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $25,000
43
Edward Weston
Tina Modotti
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $250,000
44
Consuelo Kanaga
Frances (with Daisies)
Estimate $4,000 - 6,000
Sold for $5,000
45
Consuelo Kanaga
Portrait of Kenneth Spencer
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $16,250
46
Dorothea Lange
A Negro Boy Who Wants to go to High School, His Father is a Sharecropper near Earle, Arkansas
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $33,750
47
Dorothea Lange
Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama
Estimate $25,000 - 35,000
Sold for $40,000
48
Dorothea Lange
Mother and Children on the Road, Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $55,000
49
Dorothea Lange
People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $10,625
50
Dorothea Lange
Portrait of a Boy, Mississippi Delta
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $12,500
51
Dorothea Lange
Turpentine Worker, DuPont, Georgia
Estimate $5,000 - 7,000
Sold for $13,750
52
Dorothea Lange
Utah Harvest
Estimate $2,000 - 3,000
Sold for $5,250
53
Dorothea Lange
Unemployment Benefits Aid Begins, San Francisco
Estimate $7,000 - 9,000
Sold for $16,250
54
This lot is no longer available.
55
This lot is no longer available.
56
Dorothea Lange
Pledge of Allegiance at Raphael Weill Elementary School a Few Weeks Prior to Evacuation, San Francisco
Estimate $15,000 - 25,000
Sold for $38,750
57
Dan Budnik
Selected Images of the Selma to Montgomery Marches
Estimate $6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $7,500
58
Helen Levitt
Boy with Gun
Estimate $10,000 - 15,000
Sold for $25,000

Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell...

New York Auction 4 April 2019

Provenance

Exhibited

Literature

49

Dorothea Lange

People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma

Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection