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The Collection of David Deitcher

Peter Hujar

David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II)

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October 17, 04:12 PM GMT

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50,000 - 70,000 USD

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Peter Hujar

1934 - 1987

David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II)

 

gelatin silver print, framed, a Matthew Marks Gallery label on the reverse

image: 14¾ by 14¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.) 

frame: 22½ by 22½ in. (57.2 by 57.2 cm.)

Executed in 1981, this print is one of only seven known lifetime prints.

Mathew Marks Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2011 by the present owner

Klaus Kertess, Peter Hujar: Animals and Nudes (Los Angeles, 2002), unpaginated

Peter Hujar: Love & Lust (San Francisco, 2014), pl. 7

Philip Gefter, Joel Smith, and Steve Turtell, Peter Hujar: Speed of Life (New York: Aperture, 2017), p. 106

David Breslin and David Kiehl, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night (New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018), pl. 71 (variant croppping)