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About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs

David Wojnarowicz

Untitled (Face in Dirt)

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April 10, 02:03 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

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About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs

David Wojnarowicz

1954 - 1992

Untitled (Face in Dirt)


gelatin silver print, framed, a P.P.O.W. Gallery label on the reverse

image: 19 by 19¾ in. (48.3 by 50.2 cm.)

frame: 28 by 28 in. (71.1 by 71.1 cm.)

Executed in 1991, printed posthumously in 1992-93, this print is number 6 from an edition of 10.

P. P. O. W. Gallery, New York

Olivier Renaud-Clément

Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner

Love’s Body: Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography (Tokyo: Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 1998), p. 80

Dan Cameron, John Carlin, C. Carr, and Mysoon Rizk, Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz (New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999), p. 88

David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape (New York: Aperture, 2000), cover, p. 193

David Breslin and David Kiehl, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2018), p. 280

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Love's Body: Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, November 1998 – January 1999, no. 72