Dorothea Lange - Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection New York Monday, October 3, 2022 | Phillips
  • "(Lange) was marvelous with gesture. Not just the gesture of a hand, but the way people planted their feet, and cocked their hips, and held their heads."
    —John Szarkowski

    • Provenance

      Collection of Dorothea Lange
      By descent to the present owners

    • Literature

      Variant croppings:
      John Szarkowski, The Museum of Modern Art, Dorothea Lange, p. 34
      Sarah Hermanson Meister, Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures, p. 45
      Dorothea Lange, Photographs of a Lifetime, Aperture, 1982, p. 66

    • Catalogue Essay

      The photographs in Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection were in the photographer’s collection at the time of her death and thenceforth passed to her descendants. The images represent the entirety of Lange’s career as one of the foremost documentary photographers of the 20th century, from work made before her engagement with the Resettlement Administration, later the Farm Security Administration, in the 1930s, to the travel photography that absorbed her in her final years, as well as more personal images of her family. Each print bears a Family Collection stamp on the reverse.

Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

5

Free Speech

1938
Gelatin silver print, printed later.
7 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (18.7 x 24.1 cm)
'1163 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California' credit stamp and a family collection stamp on the verso.

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Estimate
$6,000 - 8,000 

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Dorothea Lange: The Family Collection

Online Auction 3 - 13 October 2022