ID 950126
Lot 24 | DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971)
Estimate value
$ 900 000 – 1 200 000
A box of ten photographs
New York: Privately published, 1970. Portfolio of ten gelatin silver prints, printed 1973 by Neil Selkirk; each annotated 'A Diane Arbus photograph', signed, titled, dated and numbered '15/50' in ink by Doon Arbus, Administrator, with portfolio stamp and reproduction limitation stamp (verso); each image approximately 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (37.4 x 37.4 cm.); each sheet 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.7 cm.); title page with printed facsimile signature, portfolio title and date; original vellum interleaving sheets each with printed facsimile extended title and date; number fifteen from the edition of fifty; each framed in a white wood frame 24 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. (62.2 x 57.1 cm.); accompanied with original Plexiglas box designed by Marvin Israel 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 in. (52 x 41.9 cm.)
Provenance
Private Collection, France, 1974;
Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, October 17, 2003, lot 47;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus, Aperture, New York, 1972, n.p. (all illustrated).
Sandra Phillips et al., Diane Arbus Revelations, Random House, New York, 2003, p. 214 (image of one of the original portfolio boxes and title pages) and p. 222 (image of the vellum sheet on which Arbus practiced writing out titles for the portfolio).
Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: A box of ten photographs, Aperture, New York, 2018, (all illustrated).
| Artist: | Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Artist: | Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Genre: | Portrait |
| Auction house category: | Photography |
| Address of auction |
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