Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
'A family on the lawn one Sunday in Westchester, N. Y.'
Lot closes
October 23, 06:41 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
Starting Bid
25,000 USD
We may charge or debit your saved payment method subject to the terms set out in our Conditions of Business for Buyers.
Read more.Lot Details
Description
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
You May Also Like