Diane Arbus

'A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C.'

Lot closes

October 23, 06:44 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Starting Bid

13,000 USD

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Diane Arbus

1926 - 1971

'A young Brooklyn family going for a Sunday outing, N.Y.C.'

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

"Five Photographs by Diane Arbus," Artforum, May 1971, p. 67

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

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

Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), pp. 8-9