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DIANE ARBUS (American, 1923-1971) A BOX OF TEN PHOTOGRAPHS 1) BOY WITH STRAW HAT WAITING TO MARCH...
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Estimated At:90,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Oct 17 @ 18:00UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT
DIANE ARBUS
(American, 1923-1971)
A BOX OF TEN PHOTOGRAPHS
1) BOY WITH STRAW HAT WAITING TO MARCH IN A PRO-WAR PARADE, N.Y.C. 1967
2) A FAMILY ON THEIR LAWN ONE SUNDAY IN WESTCHESTER, N.Y. 1968
3) A JEWISH GIANT AT HOME WITH HIS PARENTS IN THE BRONX, N.Y. 1970
4) A YOUNG MAN IN CURLERS AT HOME ON WEST 20TH STREET, N.Y.C. 1966
5) THE KING AND QUEEN OF A SENIOR CITIZENS DANCE, N.Y.C. 1970
6) IDENTICAL TWINS, ROSELLE, N.J. 1967
7) MEXICAN DWARF IN HIS HOTEL ROOM
IN N.Y.C. 1970
8) XMAS TREE IN A LIVING ROOM IN LEVITTOWN, L.I. 1963
9) A YOUNG BROOKLYN FAMILY GOING FOR A SUNDAY OUTING, N.Y.C. 1966
10) RETIRED MAN AND HIS WIFE AT HOME IN A NUDIST CAMP ONE MORNING, N.J. 1963
Estate of Diane Arbus copyright stamps and information
on verso, signed by
Doon Arbus for the Arbus Estate in black ink on verso
edition stamp “This print is part of a limited edition portfolio of ten Diane Arbus photographs 15/50”
in ink on verso
printing instructions noted in pencil on verso
10 gelatin silver prints with individual title sheets screenprinted in the artist’s handwriting, inside the original Plexiglas box created for the portfolio
title page included which reads “A Box of ten photographs Diane Arbus 1970”
Plexiglas box: 201?4 x 167?16 x 1 in.
(51.5 x 41.8 x 2.54 cm)
image dimensions range from
141?2 x 141?4 in. (36.8 x 36.2 cm)
to 157?16 x 1413?16 in. (39.2 x 37.6 cm)
paper: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
1962-1970
printed in 1973 by Neil Selkirk
this portfolio is number 15
from an edition of 50
ESTIMATE: $90,000-120,000
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, FRANCE
LITERATURE
DIANE ARBUS, New York, Aperture, 1972, n.p. (all illustrated)
Diane Arbus was one of the most influential contemporary artists of the 20th Century, whose importance is only beginning to be recognized. A BOX OF TEN PHOTOGRAPHS was her only portfolio, one of her last projects before her death in 1971, and is comprised of the images she felt best represented her artistic achievement. She made and distributed a flyer about the portfolio that included 35 millimeter contacts of each of the ten images along with the following typewritten text:
“…there is a portfolio of ten photographs by Diane Arbus dating from nineteen sixty-two to nineteen seventy in an edition of fifty, printed, signed, numbered, annotated by the photographer, sixteen by twenty inches in a nearly invisible box which is also a frame, designed by Marvin Israel. Available from Diane Arbus, four sixty-three West Street, New York City, for one thousand dollars.”
At the time of Arbus’s death, it is believed that five portfolios had been completed. They are currently located in various collections: 1) The collection of Jasper Johns; 2) The collection of Richard Avedon; 3) The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; 4) Private Collection; 5) Private Collection.
The remaining sets were printed by Neil Selkirk between 1972 and 1975 to complete the edition of 50. As many of these posthumous portfolios have been split up, complete sets are considered to be extremely rare. This example (number 15 of 50) was acquired by its current owner in 1974. The prints have remained in their original Plexiglas portfolio box since, have never been exhibited privately or publicly and are in pristine condition.
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