Classic Photographs

DIANE ARBUS | 'A FAMILY ON THEIR LAWN ONE SUNDAY IN WESTCHESTER, N. Y.'

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October 1, 06:09 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

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DIANE ARBUS

1923-1971

'A FAMILY ON THEIR LAWN ONE SUNDAY IN WESTCHESTER, N. Y.'

gelatin silver print, signed, titled, and dated in pencil and inscribed 'Dear Dr. Klein, Thanks for that good and generous phone conversation,' initialed, and the title annotated 'one Sunday' in ink on the reverse, framed, 1968

image: 15¾ by 15 in. (40 by 38 cm.)

framed: 26¾ by 25½ in. (67.9 by 64.8 cm.)

Gift of the photographer to Dr. Klein, circa 1968-69

Sotheby’s New York, 16 October 2004, Sale 8018, Lot 185

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2005

Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), unpaginated

Carroll T. Hartwell, The Making of a Collection: Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Aperture, 1984), p. 92

Thomas W. Southall, Diane Arbus Magazine Work (Aperture, 1984), pp. 106-7

Daniel Wolf, The Art of Photography, 1839-1989 (New Haven, 1989), pl. 329

Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), p. 329

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