Nan Goldin - Under the Influence London Monday, April 7, 2014 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva
    Phillips de Pury, New York, Contemporary Art, 11 November 2005, Lot 227
    Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Nan Goldin

    American • 1953

    American artist Nan Goldin uses photography to expose the intimate and vulnerable nature of her personal life. Her photographs are raw, authentic, sexual and, at times, highly violent. Her most famous series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, chronicles Goldin's life during the late 1970s and '80s, following the artist through the gritty, abusive and often dangerous situations she put herself through.

    The material being half-autobiographical and half-universal, Goldin attempts to depict the complexities of city living by way of diaristic practices. Having shot New York during its golden years, she has created an expansive archive of the AIDS crisis, drug abuse in the 1980s, underground culture and urban development.

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Self-portrait in pyjamas, Priory Hospital London

2002
cibachrome print mounted on aluminium
68.5 x 101.1 cm (26 7/8 x 39 3/4 in.)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 'Self-portrait in pyjamas, The Priory Hospital London 2002 Nan Goldin #7/15' on the reverse. This work is number 7 from an edition of 15.

Estimate
£5,000 - 7,000 

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Tamila Kerimova
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Under the Influence

London Auction 8 April 2014 2pm