Photographs

Photographs

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Betta Splendens, New York City (2 Photographs)

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12,000 - 18,000 USD

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HIRO

1930 - 2021

Betta Splendens, New York City (2 Photographs)


2 oversized dye-transfer prints, each flush-mounted to linen, signed and editioned '4/20' in pencil and fingerprinted in ink, and with the photographer's title, date and numerical stamps on the reverse, each framed

each image: 26½ by 38 in. (67.3 by 96.5 cm.)

each frame: 31 by 42½ in. (78.7 by 108 cm.)

Executed in 1981 and 1984.

Acquired from the photographer by fashion designer Roy ‘Halston’ Frowick, circa 1985

By descent to the present owner

Fighting Fish / Fighting Birds: Photographs by HIRO (New York, 1990), unpaginated

Richard Avedon, ed., HIRO: Photographs (Boston, 1999), unpaginated

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