Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Nicholas Nixon
The Brown Sisters
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200,000 - 300,000 EUR
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Elixir of Life: Photographs from The Olbricht Collection
Nicholas Nixon
b. 1947
The Brown Sisters
the complete set of 48 gelatin silver prints, each signed, titled, dated, editioned and annotated in pencil on the reverse, framed
images: 7¾ by 9⅝ in. (19.7 by 24.4 cm.)
frames: 11½ by 13 in. (29 by 33 cm.)
Executed in 1975-2022, these prints are from an edition of 50, with one from an edition of 60.
1975-1979:
Sotheby’s New York, 27 April 2005, Lot 159
Acquired from the above by the present owner
1980-2022:
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above annually by the present owner
Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich, YES, YES, YES, YES, October 2005 - January 2006
Mainz, Kunsthalle Mainz, Alle Zeit der Welt, March - May 2008
Schwaz, Kunstraum Schwaz, Die Kunst des Alterns, September - October 2007
Krems, Kunstmeile Krems, Lebenslust & Totentanz, July - November 2010
Paris, La Maison Rouge, Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht, October 2011 - January 2012
Berlin, me Collectors Room Berlin, The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection, September 2018 - January 2019
Tübingen, Kunsthalle Tübingen and Linz, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Sisters & Brothers: 500 Jahre Geschwister in der Kunst, November 2022 - April 2023 and May - September 2023
John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 (New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1978), p. 146
Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988), pp. 93-105
Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999), unpaginated
YES, YES, YES, YES: Difference And Repetition in Pictures of the Olbricht Collection (Leverkusen: Museum Morsbroich, 2005), pp. 103-11 (these prints)
Lebenslust & Totentanz (Krems: Kunstmeile Krems, 2010), pp. 178-79 (these prints)
Mémoires du futur, la collection Olbricht (Paris: La Maison Rouge, 2011), pp. 94-5 (these prints)
Nicholas Nixon: The Brown Sisters - Forty Years, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2014, unpaginated
The Moment Is Eternity: Works from the Olbricht Collection (Berlin: me Collectors Room Berlin, 2019), pp. 70-3 (these prints)
Sabine Kampmann, Bilder des Alterns: Greise Körper in Kunst und visueller Kultur (Berlin, 2020), p. 132
Sisters & Brothers: 500 Jahre Geschwister in der Kunst (Tübingen: Kunsthalle Tübingen and Linz: Lentos Kunstmuseum, 2022), pp. 82-5 (these prints)
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