Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

Dorothea Lange

White Angel Breadline, San Francisco (Variant)

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Dorothea Lange

1895 - 1965

White Angel Breadline, San Francisco (Variant)

gelatin silver print, framed, 1933, probably printed in the 1940s

image: 9¾ by 7¾ in. (24.8 by 19.7 cm.)

frame: 18 by 15⅞ in. (45.7 by 40.3 cm.)

Estate of the photographer to her husband Paul Taylor

By descent to Andrew Dixon, grandson of the photographer

Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, 1997

Private collection

Michael Shapiro Photography, San Francisco, 2006

HERE. (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2011), unpaginated (this print)

Variant cropping:

Milton Meltzer, Dorothea Lange: A Photographer's Life (New York, 1978), p. 116

Keith F. Davis, The Photographs of Dorothea Lange (Kansas City, 1995), p. 20

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, HERE., May 2011 – January 2012

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography, July 2019 – March 2022