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Diane Arbus

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

Auction Closed

February 26, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

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Diane Arbus

1923 - 1971


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

signed, titled, and dated 1968 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)

gelatin silver print

15 ¾ by 15 in.

40 by 38 cm.

Executed in 1968.

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

Sotheby’s New York, 16 October 2004, lot 185 (consigned by the above)

Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2005 by the present owner

Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus, Aperture, 1972, unpaginated, illustrated (another example)

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

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

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

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