DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971)
21.11.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1334700
Lot 39 | DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N.Y.,1970
gelatin silver print
signed, titled 'Eddie Carmel, jewish giant with his parents in the living room of their home in the Bronx N.Y. 1970' and dated by the artist in ink, stamped 'a diane arbus print', signed, numbered '#6882–2S–1620' by Doon Arbus, Administrator, in ink (verso)
image: 14 ¾ x 14 ¼ in. (37.4 x 36.2 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
This work was printed by Diane Arbus.
Provenance
Simon Lewinsky Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1983
Literature
Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph, Aperture, New York, 1972, n.p.
Anne Tucker, The Woman's Eye, First Edition, Knopf, New York, 1973, p. 116.
Sandra S. Phillips et al., Diane Arbus: Revelations, Random House, New York, 2003, pp. 209, 300.
Quentin Bajac et al., Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2015, p. 25.
Diane Arbus et al., Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs, Aperture Foundation in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York, 2018, n.p.
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