Lot 174
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Diane Arbus (1923-1971)/Neil Selkirk (b. 1947)

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Description

  • Diane Arbus (1923-1971)/Neil Selkirk (B. 1947)
  • selected images from 'a box of ten photographs'
a group of 7 (of 10) photographs from A Box of Ten Photographs (New York, 1970, an edition of 50), each signed, titled, dated, and numbered '40/50' by the photographer's daughter, Doon Arbus, in ink and with Neil Selkirk's printing notations in pencil and with the portfolio and Arbus Estate reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, 1963-70, printed in the early 1970s by Neil Selkirk from DIANE ARBUS's negatives; together with the title page printed with 'A Box of Ten Photographs' and the photographer's signature and date in facsimile, and 5 (of 7) individual interleaves printed with the photographer's facsimile captions and dates.  Folio, in the original clear Plexiglas box, no. 40 in an edition of 50

Provenance

Witkin Gallery, New York, 1975

Collection of Yajima/Galerie and Charles Gagnon, Montreal, 1975-85

Private Collection, Montreal

Exhibited

Yajima/Galerie, Montreal, 28 May - 21 June, 1975

This print of 'A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N. Y.': 

Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, L'Oeil du Collectionneur, 18 October, 1996 - 5 January, 1997

Catalogue Note

The plates are as follows:

'A Jewish Giant at Home with his Parents in the Bronx, N.Y., 1970'

'A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in Westchester, N.Y., 1968'

'The King and Queen of a Senior Citizens Dance, N.Y.C., 1970'

'Mexican Dwarf in his Hotel Room in N. Y. C.,  1970'

'Xmas Tree in a Living Room in Levittown, L. I.,  1963'

'Identical Twins, Roselle, N. J.,  1967'

'A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N. Y. C., 1966'