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670 - F.S.A.-Photographie (Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post-Wolcott, Russell Lee)

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€2,400

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Estimation

€3,000 - 4,000

Sale fees

35.7%

F.S.A.-Photographie (Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post-Wolcott, Russell Lee) F.S.A. photography (Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post-Wolcott, Russell Lee) Untitled 1936-39 4 gelatin silver prints, printed later. From 16.8 x 24.8 cm (19.4 x 25.1 cm) to 18.8 x 24.8 cm (20.2 x 25.2 cm). One print signed in pencil on the verso, each with “F.S.A. photograph” stamp as well as annotated in an unknown hand in pencil on the verso. - Each matted. Provenance The Margulies Collection, Miami Literature Centre National de l'Audiovisuel et al. (eds.), The Bitter Years. The Farm Security Administration photographs, through the eyes of Edward Steichen, exhib.cat. Château d'Eau, Dudelange, London 2012, ill. pp. 59, 78 and 220 Subjects: Marion Post Wolcott, Coal miner's child taking home kerosene for lamps, 1938 Russell Lee, Christmas Dinner in the Home of Earl Pauley, near Smithfield, Iowa, 1936 Arthur Rothstein, Daughter of Sharecropper, Wilmington, North Carolina, Juli 1938 Marion Post Wolcott, Mrs. Lloyd, ninety-one year-old victim of Pellagra, 1939

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Auction details

Photography
Friday, December 4
02:00 PM
Neumarkt, 3
50667 Cologne, Germany

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