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Wednesday, 27 November 2013, 06:00 pm

Dorothea Lange, Funeral Cortège End of an Era in a Small Valley Town

Lot 722

Dorothea Lange, 1895-1965 (US)

Funeral Cortège End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, 1938

Vintage. Gelatin silver print.
H 353 mm W 278 mm.

CHF6'000 / 10'000
EUR5'000 / 9'000
USD6'500 / 11'000

Hammer Price: CHF 5'500

Annotation:

Verso with blue ball-point pen, inscribed by unknown hand: "38062".

Provenance: Collection Family Paul S. Taylor (second husband of Dorothea Lange).

Literature:
- John Szarkowski. Dorothea Lange.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
Page 23, illustration of a different print;
- Robert Coles, Therese Heyman.
Dorothea Lange, Photographs of a Lifetime.
o.O., Aperure, 1982. Page 55, illustration of a different print;
- Keith F. Davis, Kelle A.Botkin.
The Photographs of Dorothea Lange.
Kansas City, 1995.
Page 52, illustration of a different print;
- Pierre Borhan. Dorothea Lange,
The Heart and Mind of a Photographer.
Boston, 2002. Page 148, illustration of a different print.