PETER HUJAR (1934–1987)
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PETER HUJAR (1934–1987)

Clown with Long Tie (II), 1973

Closed3 April 2024

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PETER HUJAR (1934–1987)
HUJAR, P.
Clown with Long Tie (II), 1973
gelatin silver print
signed in ink (recto)
image: 14 ½ x 14 ½ in. (36.8 x 36.8 cm.)
sheet: 20 x 15 ¾ in. (50.8 x 40 cm.)
This work was printed by Peter Hujar.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

Specialist note

This incredible vintage print was included in the first posthumous exhibition of Hujar’s work in 1990 by New York University’s Grey Art Gallery & Study Center. In a publication accompanying the exhibition, writer, and then executor of Hujar’s estate, Stephen Koch said the following about Hujar’s fame at the time of his death: ‘In a way, he was famous. But it was a very odd fame. I am tempted to call it a kind of secret fame. His reputation was simultaneously widespread and covered; at once powerful and almost invisible.