Diane Arbus - Photographs Evening & Day New York Wednesday, October 5, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Directly from the artist

  • Literature

    'The Full Circle', Harper's Bazaar, November 1961, p. 133
    Aperture, Diane Arbus: Magazine Work, p. 19
    Arbus, Sussman, Phillips, Selkirk and Rosenheim, Diane Arbus: Revelations, p. 157 for the Harper's Bazaar layout

  • Artist Biography

    Diane Arbus

    American • 1923 - 1971

    Transgressing traditional boundaries, Diane Arbus is known for her highly desirable, groundbreaking portraiture taken primarily in the American Northeast during the late 1950s and 1960s. Famous for establishing strong personal relationships with her subjects, Arbus' evocative images capture them in varied levels of intimacy. Whether in their living rooms or on the street, their surreal beauty transcends the common distance found in documentary photography.

    Taken as a whole, Arbus' oeuvre presents the great diversity of American society — nudists, twins, babies, beauty queens and giants — while each distinct image brings the viewer into contact with an exceptional individual brought to light through Arbus' undeniable genius. 

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1961
Gelatin silver print.
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (24.1 x 16.5 cm)
Stamped 'a diane arbus print', signed by Doon Arbus, Executor, in ink, copyright credit, reproduction limitation and partial 'Harper's Bazaar' stamps on the reverse of the flush-mount. Accompanied by a letter of authentication from the Estate of Diane Arbus.

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$10,000 - 15,000 

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Photographs Evening & Day

New York 5 & 6 October 2016