Lot 289
Lot 289
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Alabama Farm Interior (Fields Family Cabin), 1936

Price Realised USD 3,500
Estimate
USD 6,000 - USD 8,000
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WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)

Alabama Farm Interior (Fields Family Cabin), 1936

Price Realised USD 3,500
Price Realised USD 3,500
Details
WALKER EVANS (1903–1975)
Alabama Farm Interior (Fields Family Cabin), 1936
gelatin silver print, printed c. 1962 by Rolf Petersen
credited in pencil, numbered 'RA 8144-A' and variously otherwise numbered in pencil/red pencil (verso)
image: 10 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. (27.2 x 34.9 cm.)
sheet: 11 x 14 in. (28 x 35.7 cm.)

Literature
James Szarkowski, Walker Evans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1971, p. 100.
Jerald C. Maddox, Walker Evans Photographs for the Farm Security Administration, 1935-1938, Da Capo, New York, 1975, pl. 338.
Jerry L. Thompson, Walker Evans at Work, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984, p. 129.
Exhibition catalogue, Walker Evans, America, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, 1990, pl. 104.
John T. Hill and Gilles Mora, The Hungry Eye, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1993, p. 209.
Judith Keller, Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1995, pl. 549, p. 169 (variant).
Peter Galassi, Walker Evans & Company, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2000, fig. 36, p. 61.
Maria Morris Hambourg et al., Walker Evans, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000, pl. 101.


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Lot Essay

This work was printed in conjunction with the exhibition The Bitter Years: 1935–1941 presented by The Museum of Modern Art in 1962.

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