Dorothea Lange — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works1706

Museum Acquisitions

Whitney

MoMA

Previous Sales 291

Sotheby's

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

$60,000

May 2026

Sotheby's

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

$32,000

Oct 2025

Sotheby's

Ditched, Stalled and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936

$8,000

Oct 2025

Sotheby's

No Rain, Idle in Town During the Great Drought, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, 1936

$4,000

Oct 2025

Sotheby's

"Skid Row," Howard Street, San Francisco, California, 1937

$2,200

Oct 2025

Sotheby's

Ma Burnham, Conroy, Arkansas, 1938

$1,500

Oct 2025

Christie's

Untitled (Portrait of an unknown man) , 1934

$5,670

Feb 2024

Christie's

Portrait of a Young Boy, 1929

$3,528

Feb 2024

Sotheby's

Ditched, Stalled and Stranded, San Joaquin Valley, California

$114,300

May 2023

Sotheby's

Mended Stockings, San Francisco

$60,960

May 2023

Sotheby's

Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town

$20,320

May 2023

Sotheby's

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

$609,600

May 2023

Sotheby's

Migratory Cotton Worker, Eloy, Arizona

$88,900

May 2023

Sotheby's

The Road West, New Mexico

$44,450

May 2023

Sotheby's

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California

$60,000

Oct 2022

Sotheby's

'Transient- Cotton Camp Near Exeter'

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Untitled (Church Service)

Unknown

Dec 2020

Christie's

The General Strike, Policeman, San Francisco, 1934

$62,500

Oct 2019

Christie's

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco, 1933

$175,000

Oct 2018

Christie's

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1936

$162,500

Oct 2018

Christie's

Spring Plowing, Cauliflower Fields, Guadalupe, California, 1937

$8,750

Oct 2018

Christie's

One migrant family hauls the broken-down car of the other to the fields at Nipomo, 1936

$8,750

Oct 2018

Christie's

White Angel Bread Line, San Francisco, 1933

$200,000

Oct 2017

Christie's

Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940

$200,000

Oct 2017

For Sale 3

Edwynn Houk Gallery · Artsy

Cable Car, San Francisco, 1956

Price on request

Gelatin silver enlargement print

Aperture · Artsy

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, CA, 1936

Price on request

Hand-Pulled Dust-Grain Photogravure

Edwynn Houk Gallery · Artsy

White Angel Breadline, San Francisco, 1933

Price on request

Gelatin silver print

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Market629 auction results

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$63 – $610K

221 of 319 photographs lots with prices

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$27.8K

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$7.0K

221 priced photographs lots

calendar_todayLast Photographs Sale

May 2026 · $60.0K

Latest tracked sale in this object type

categoryMarket by Object Type

Photographs: $7.0K medianWorks on paper: $2.0K medianEditioned photos: $6.3K medianEditioned objects: $2.2K medianUnclassified lots: $1.0K median

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Education1

Columbia University School of the Arts

New York, NY, USA

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Publications7

Monograph 3

Dorothea Lange

Yale University Press · 2023

DAY SLEEPER DOROTHEA LANGE Author

MACK Books · 2020

Dorothea Lange

Phaidon Press · 2011

Exhibition Catalog 3

Last West Author

MoMA Publications · 2020

Dorothea Lange

Prestel · 2018

The photographs of Dorothea Lange

Abrams · 1996

Survey 1

Women Photographers 1900 - 1975: A Legacy of Light

Hatje Cantz · 2025

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Current Exhibitions0

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Past Exhibitions3

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#2,613 ATLAS Gallery

Legacy of Light: 200 Years of Photography

Paul Strand, Irving Penn, Man Ray, Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Elliott Erwitt, Mario Giacomelli, Dorothea Lange, Daido Moriyama, Steve Schapiro, Harry Benson, Margaret Bourke-White, Patrick Demarchelier, William Klein, Saul Leiter, Marc Riboud, W. Eugene Smith, Yamamoto Masao, Alexander Rodchenko, Andreas Feininger, Franco Fontana, Horst P. Horst, Tina Modotti, Jeanloup Sieff, Willy Ronis, Steve McCurry, Barry Lategan, Eve Arnold, Thomas Hoepker, Joe Rosenthal, John Dominis, David Bailey, Herbert George Ponting, Leni Riefenstahl, Alberto Korda, Lewis Morley, Rudolf Koppitz, Jürgen Schadeberg, Terence Donovan, Iain Macmillan, Cornell Capa, George Hoyningen-Huene, Harold Edgerton

49 Dorset St, London W1U 7NF, United Kingdom

Mar 27, 2026 — May 30, 2026

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