Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Diane Arbus
'A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, N. Y. C.'
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50,000 - 70,000 USD
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45,000 USD
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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Diane Arbus
1926 - 1971
'A young man in curlers at home on West 20th Street, 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 1966, 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
Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), unpaginated
John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978), p. 100
Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck, On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), pl. 360
Photographien im Dialog, (Köln, 1997), p. 57
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, eds., Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003, p. 237)
Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), pp. 46 and 184
Peter Weiermair and Gerald Matt, Americans: The Social Landscape from 1940 until 2006, Masterpieces of American Photography (Kunstalle Wien, 2006), p. 95
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Collection of Richard Avedon, vol. 1 (San Francisco, 2006), unpaginated
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (New York, 2017), p. 60
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