Lot 112
  • 112

Diane Arbus (1923-1971)/Neil Selkirk (b. 1947)

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Description

  • Diane Arbus (1923-1971)/Neil Selkirk (B. 1947)
  • 'CHILD WITH A TOY HAND GRENADE IN CENTRAL PARK, N. Y. C.'
signed, titled, dated, and numbered '31/75' by the photographer's daughter, Doon Arbus, in ink, and with the 'A Diane Arbus Photograph' and Arbus Estate reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, matted, 1962, printed later by Neil Selkirk from DIANE ARBUS's negative, no. 31 in an edition of 75

Provenance

Lunn Gallery, Washington, D. C.

A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans

Acquired by the present owner from the above, late 1970s

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972, in conjunction with the exhibition originating at The Museum of Modern Art, New York), unpaginated

Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition originating at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), pp. 104-05, 164, and 208

Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), p. 243

Peter Turner, ed., American Images: Photography 1945-1980 (London: Barbican Art Gallery, 1985), p. 154

Jonathan Green, American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present (New York, 1984), p. 119

Susan Kismaric, American Children: Photographs from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (The Museum of Modern Art, 1980, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 20

James L. Enyeart, Language of Light: A Survey of the Photography Collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Art (Lawrence, 1974), pl. 8 

The Graham Nash Collection (Los Angeles: The Nash Press, 1978), p. 30

Photography/Venice '79 (New York: Rizzoli, 1979), p. 336

Alfred Appel, Jr., Signs of Life (New York, 1983), p. 84