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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Peter Hujar

Palermo Catacombs #8, Skull in Window

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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection

Peter Hujar

1934 - 1987

Palermo Catacombs #8, Skull in Window


gelatin silver print, the photographer's estate stamp, signed, titled and dated and annotated by Stephen Koch, Executor, in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Matthew Marks Gallery label on the reverse

image: 11 by 14 in. (28 by 36 cm.)

frame: 19⅝ by 22½ in. (50 by 57 cm.)

Executed in 1963.

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2003 by the present owner

Peter Hujar, Portraits in Life and Death (New York, 1976), unpaginated

Peter Hujar: Intimate Survey (Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 1999), back cover

Steve Lawrence and Andrew Ullrick eds., Newspaper (New York, 2023), unpaginated

Peter Hujar: Rialto (New York: The Ukrainian Museum, 2024), unpaginated