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Photography/Faces and Places Auction | December 3, 2024

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Faces and Places. Our December 3 Photography auction includes 73 lots by important masters Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Peter Henry Emerson, and Alfred Eisenstaedt, among many others. Beginning with pictorialist works by Emerson and Frederick Henry Evans, the images progress through twentieth century masters Lartigue, D'Oisneau, Orkin, Abbott, Karsh, Erwitt, Siskind, Bill and Nick Brandt, Brett Weston, Margaret Bourke-White, and others; to more recent works by Jan Saudek, Joan Myers, and Wolf von dem Bussche.
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Lot 13

Diane Arbus

Estimate: $70,000 - $90,000
Starting Bid
$35,000

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(American, 1971)

Child with a Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, N.Y.C. 1962, printed later by Neil Selkirk, stamped print verso "A Diane Arbus Photograph", titled and signed in ink by Doon Arbus, also copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps on verso, image 14-7/8 x 14-5/8 in.; sheet 20 x 16 in.; unframed 

Provenance: Private Collection, Wisconsin

Literature: Diane Arbus, Aperture, Millerton, 1972, n.p.; Sandra Phillips, et al.,  Diane Arbus, New York: Aperture, 1972, n.p.; S. Kismaric, American Children: Photographs from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York: MoMA, 1980, p. 20; J. Green, American Photography: A Critical History 1945 to the Present, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1984, p. 119;
P. Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from the Museum of Modern Art, New York: MoMA, 1996, p. 243; Diane Arbus: Revelations, New York: Random House, 2003, pp. 104–105, p. 164; A. Nemervo, Silent Dialogues: Diane Arbus and Howard Nemerov, New York: D.A.P., 2015, p. 31; J.  Rosenheim, Diane Arbus: in the beginning, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, p. 257

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Private Collection, Wisconsin

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