Peter Hujar

Edwin Denby

Lot closes

October 23, 06:54 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Starting Bid

6,000 USD

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Lot Details

Description

Property from the Fisher Landau Center for Art

Peter Hujar

1934 - 1987

Edwin Denby

gelatin silver print, framed, a Fisher Landau Center label on the reverse

image: 14⅝ by 14¾ in. (37.1 by 37.5 cm.)

frame: 22½ by 22½ in. (57.2 by 57.2 cm.)

Executed in 1975.

Lynn Davis, New York

Acquired from the above in 2003 by the present owner

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Photographs: Recent Acquisitions, April 2003 - March 2005

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Legacy: Selections from Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to The Whitney Museum of American Art, June 2011 - April 2012

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Legacy: Photographs from Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to the Whitney Museum of Art, November 2013 - March 2014

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Literary Devices, October 2014 - March 2015

Peter Hujar, Portraits in Life and Death (New York, 1976), unpaginated

Peter Hujar: Eine Retrospektive (Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1994), p. 102

Dana Miller, ed., Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2011), p. 323