Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Nan Goldin
'David at Grove St., Boston'
Lot Closed
April 10, 04:00 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Nan Goldin
b. 1953
'David at Grove St., Boston'
gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated, and editioned '9/18' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a Matthew Marks Gallery label on the reverse
image: 18¾ by 12¾ in. (47.6 by 32.4 cm.)
frame: 26¼ by 20¼ in. (66.7 by 51.4 cm.)
Executed in 1972.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2009 by the present owner
Nan Goldin, The Other Side (New York, 1993), p. 11
Nan Goldin, I’ll Be Your Mirror (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996), p. 62
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, (New York, 2021), pp. 352 and 415
"The most extensive portrait in Goldin’s work is of David Armstrong, whom she has photographed since the 1960s. It forms a parallel to The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Unlike that work, which is driven by sexuality and its fallout, the Armstrong portrait reveals friendship without the obsessional quality of a lover’s portrait. It is a straightforward, structured narrative of another form of desire: Goldin clearly loves the body and face of Armstrong, but she records his features in order to fathom his presence as a deep force in her life" (I’ll Be Your Mirror, p. 40). This photograph is situated at the beginning of the extensive documentation of Armstrong, charting his development into adulthood. All the themes characteristic of Goldin’s oeuvre are present in this portrait: nightlife, identity expression, and–the most essential–companionship.
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