Diane Arbus
Identical Twins, Roselle, N. J.
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Estimate
500,000 - 700,000 USD
Bid
450,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Diane Arbus
1923 - 1971
Identical twins, Roselle, N. J.
gelatin silver print, signed by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, annotated with the Diane Arbus Estate authentication number '4539-14-3U-1620' in ink, and with the 'a diane arbus print' stamp on the reverse, framed; accompanied by a signed letter of authenticity from the Arbus Estate and a Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University exhibition label
image: 14¾ by 14¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.)
frame: 27 by 27 in. (68.6 by 68.6 cm.)
Executed in 1966.
Estate of the photographer
Acquired from Robert Miller Gallery, New York, with Larry Gagosian as agent in 1978
By descent to the present owner
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, August - November 1990
'Five Photographs by Diane Arbus,' Artforum, May 1971, p. 69
Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (New York, 1972), cover and unpaginated
New Photography USA (London, 1972), unpaginated
Sarah Greenough, et al., On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D. C., 1989), pl. 359
Ned Rifkin, Jane Jackson, et. al., Chorus of Light: Photographs from The Sir Elton John Collection (Atlanta, 2000), p. 86
Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), pp. 182, 265, and 270-1
Weston Naef, Photographers of Genius at the Getty (Los Angeles, 2004), pl. 115
Rachel Rosenfield Lafo and Anne Higonnet, Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children (Lincoln, 2008), pl. 51
Quentin Bajac et al., eds., Photography at MoMA: 1960–Now (New York, 2015), pl. 1
Sarah Hermanson Meister, Arbus, Friedlander, Winogrand: New Documents, 1967 (New York, 2017), pp. 35 and 136
John P. Jacob, Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs (New York, 2018), pl. 4 and p. 71
Jeff Rosenheim, Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020), p. 79
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