Provenance
Collection of Robbie Robertson (1943-2023), Canadian musician
Private Collection, US, 2014
Literature
E. Sussman & S. Phillips, Diane Arbus: Revelations, London: Jonathan Cape, 2003, pp. 100-101
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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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, UK

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Lot offered with No Reserve

Diane Arbus

Russian Midget Friends in a Living Room on 100th St, NYC

1963
Gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk.
36 x 36 cm (14 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
Stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph', signed, titled, dated, numbered 15/75 by Doon Arbus, Executor, in ink, estate copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on the verso.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 •

Sold for £4,064

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