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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Diane Arbus

‘Mexican dwarf in his hotel room in N. Y. C.’

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Diane Arbus

1926 - 1971


‘Mexican dwarf in his hotel room in N. Y. C.’

gelatin silver print, a plate from A Box of Ten Photographs (New York, 1970), the photographer's facsimile signature label, signed by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, titled and dated 1970 and 1973 by Neil Selkirk and with the photographer's reproduction and portfolio stamp, editioned 14/50 in ink, on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse

image: 14 ¾ by 14 ¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.)

Executed in 1970, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk.

Private collection

Sotheby's New York, 2 October 1996, lot 399

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner

'Five Photographs by Diane Arbus,' Artforum, May 1971, p. 68

Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus, New York 1972, unpaginated

Sandra Phillips et al., Diane Arbus Revelations, New York 2003, p. 66

John P. Jacob, Diane Arbus: A Box of Ten Photographs, New York 2018, p. 74