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Nicholas Nixon

The Brown Sisters

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May 1, 11:36 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

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Nicholas Nixon

B. 1947

The Brown Sisters


48 gelatin silver prints, each signed, annotated, and dated in pencil on the reverse, each framed, 1975-2022

each image: 7¾ by 9⅝ in. (19.7 by 24.4 cm.)

each frame: 14⅝ by 17¾ in. (37.1 by 45.1 cm.)

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2005

Acquired annually thereafter from Fraenkel Gallery

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, About Face, May 2012 – April 2013

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Grain of the Present, April 2017 – March 2018

About Face (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014), p. 112 (these prints)

The Grain of the Present (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017), pp. 39, 242–51 (these prints)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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