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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Diane Arbus

'A family on the lawn one Sunday in Westchester, N. Y.'

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October 23, 06:41 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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25,000 USD

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Diane Arbus

1926 - 1971

'A family on the lawn one Sunday in Westchester, N. Y.'


gelatin silver print, a plate from A Box of Ten Photographs (New York, 1970), the photographer's facsimile signature label, signed by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, titled and dated by Neil Selkirk and with the photographer's reproduction and portfolio stamp, editioned '14/50' in ink, on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse

image: 14¾ by 14¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.)

frame: 23¼ by 23 in. (59.1 by 58.4 cm.)

Executed in 1968, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk.

Private collection

Sotheby's New York, 2 October 1996, Sale 6888, Lot 399

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner

Diane Arbus, "Two American Families," Sunday Times Magazine, 10 November 1968, p. 56

Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), unpaginated

Carroll T. Hartwell, The Making of a Collection: Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Aperture, 1984), p. 92

Thomas W. Southall, Diane Arbus Magazine Work (Aperture, 1984), pp. 106-7

Daniel Wolf, The Art of Photography, 1839-1989 (New Haven, 1989), pl. 329

Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), p. 329

Diane Arbus: Couples, 1971-1956 (San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2014), unpaginated