Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

Nicholas Nixon

The Brown Sisters

Auction Closed

November 21, 10:28 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Nicholas Nixon

b. 1947


The Brown Sisters

signed, titled, dated, numbered and annotated in pencil (on the reverse of each)

43 gelatin silver prints

each image: 7 ¾ by 9 ⅝ in.

19.7 by 24.4 cm.

Executed in 1975-2017, each print is from an edition of 50, with one from an edition of 60.

John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978, pp. 146 and 147, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Nicholas Nixon, Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988, pp. 93-105, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Sarah Greenough et al.On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, Washington, D.C. and Chicago: National Gallery of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, 1989, cat. no. 340, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography, New York, 1996, pl. 9, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography, from Dry-Plate to Digital, Kansas City, 1999, pl. 436, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999, 2002, 2008, and 2014, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Suzanne Lange, Degrees of Stillness: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection, Hamburg, 2001, pp. 89-92, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, London: Tate Modern, 2003, pp. 142-7, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Katherine A. Bussard, So The Story Goes, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006, p. 14, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Nicholas Nixon: Forty Years, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2014, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Philip Gefter, Sandra S. Phillips and Ulrike Schneider, About Face, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014, p. 112, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Ry Allred, ed., The Grain of the Present, San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017, pp. 39, 242–51, illustrated (another example illustrated)

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