Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation Sold to Benefit Charitable Organizations Evening Sale
Nicholas Nixon
The Brown Sisters
Auction Closed
May 1, 11:36 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Nicholas Nixon
B. 1947
The Brown Sisters
48 gelatin silver prints, each signed, annotated, and dated in pencil on the reverse, each framed, 1975-2022
each image: 7¾ by 9⅝ in. (19.7 by 24.4 cm.)
each frame: 14⅝ by 17¾ in. (37.1 by 45.1 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2005
Acquired annually thereafter from Fraenkel Gallery
The Grain of the Present (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2017), pp. 39, 242–51 (these prints)
John Szarkowski, Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978), pp. 146 and 147
Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1988), pp. 93-105
Sarah Greenough et al., On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D.C. and Chicago: National Gallery of Art and Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), cat. no. 340
Robert Adams, Beauty in Photography (New York, 1996), pl. 9
Keith F. Davis, An American Century of Photography, from Dry-Plate to Digital (Kansas City, 1999), pl. 436
Nicholas Nixon, The Brown Sisters (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999, 2002, 2008, and 2014)
Degrees of Stillness: Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection (Hamburg, 2001), pp. 89-92
Emma Dexter and Thomas Weski, Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph (London: Tate Modern, 2003), pp. 142-7
Katherine A. Bussard, So The Story Goes (The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 14
Nicholas Nixon: Forty Years (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2014)
San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, The Grain of the Present, April 2017 – March 2018