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Walker Evans

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