Lot 49 · Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection
People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma
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- Estimate
- $5,000–$7,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Phillips — Passion & Humanity: The Susie Tompkins Buell Collection, New York · 4 April 2019
- Record ID
- TB-2026-235634
- Record
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Dorothea Lange, People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma. Phillips, 4 Apr 2019, lot 49. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-235634.
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Dorothea Lange, People Living in Miserable Poverty, Elm Grove, Oklahoma. Phillips, 4 Apr 2019, lot 49. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-235634.
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