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Betta Splendens, New York City (2 Photographs)

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October 1, 09:05 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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HIRO

1930 - 2021


Betta Splendens, New York City (2 Photographs)

signed and editioned 4/20 in pencil and fingerprinted in ink, and with the photographer's title, date and numerical stamps (on the reverse)

2 oversized dye-transfer prints, each flush-mounted to linen

each: 26½ by 38 in.

each: 67.3 by 96.5 cm.

Executed in 1981 and 1984.

Acquired from the photographer by fashion designer Roy ‘Halston’ Frowick, circa 1985

By descent to the present owner

Fighting Fish / Fighting Birds: Photographs by HIRO (New York, 1990), unpaginated

Richard Avedon, ed., HIRO: Photographs (Boston, 1999), unpaginated