Classic Photographs
Classic Photographs
Frank Tengle, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
Lot Closed
October 7, 02:11 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Walker Evans
1903 - 1975
Frank Tengle, A Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, with annotations in pencil and the photographer's name stamp (Keller C) on the reverse, framed, 1936 (Keller 550)
image: 9 ¼ by 7 ½ in. (23.5 by 19.1 cm.)
frame: 20 ⅛ by 17 ⅝ in. (51.1 by 44.8 cm.)
Christie’s New York, 8 October 1993, Sale 7734, Lot 106
Walker Evans: Photographs for the Farm Security Administration 1935-1938 (New York, 1973), pl. 280
Gilles Mora and John T. Hill, Walker Evans: The Hungry Eye (New York, 1993), p. 211