DIANE ARBUS | 'Identical Twins, Roselle, N. J.'

signed by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, title and date '1963' in ink, and with the 'A Diane Arbus Photograph' and reproduction rights stamps on the reverse, framed, exhibition labels on the reverse, 1967, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk

Sotheby's New York, 11 October 2005, Sale 8115, Lot 171

Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, Stare: The Pleasure of the Intensely Familiar and the Strangely Unexpected, December 2010 - March 2011NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Diane Arbus, November 2012 - June 2013

'Five Photographs by Diane Arbus,' Artforum, May 1971, p. 69Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), cover and unpaginated

Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), pp. 182, 265, and 270-1

New Photography USA (London: Photographers Gallery, 1972), unpaginated

Sarah Greenough, et al., On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography (Washington, D. C.: National Gallery of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989), pl. 359

Chorus of Light: Photographs from The Sir Elton John Collection (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2000), p. 86

Weston Naef, Photographers of Genius at the Getty (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004), pl. 115

Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children (Lincoln: The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 2008), pl. 51

This print, on double-weight Agfa paper, is in generally very good. As is visible in the catalogue illustration, the tonality appears to have very slightly shifted and this is primarily evident in the midtones. Under close inspection, there is a small, soft crease in the upper right arm of the right sitter, as well as a deposit of retouching on her dress. When viewed under high raking light, there is some uneven silvering in the lower half of the left twin's dress, as well as in the ground between the twins. There are hinge remnants along the upper edge on the reverse.
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