Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Diane Arbus
'A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, N. Y.'
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30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Diane Arbus
1926 - 1971
'A Jewish giant at home with his parents in the Bronx, 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 1970, 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
"Five Photographs by Diane Arbus," Artforum, May 1971, p. 65
Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), unpaginated
Photography/Venice '79 (New York, 1979), p. 341
Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), pp. 209 and 300-1
Quentin Bajac et al., eds., Photography at MoMA: 1960-Now (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2015), p. 25
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