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DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)
Lot 407

DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)

Transvestite and her birthday cake, N.Y.C., 1969

Closed11 April 2008

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USD 11,250

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DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)
Transvestite and her birthday cake, N.Y.C., 1969
gelatin silver print, printed later by Neil Selkirk
stamped 'A Diane Arbus photograph', signed, titled, dated, numbered '46/75' by Doon Arbus, Administrator, in ink and Estate copyright credit reproduction limitation stamps (on the verso)
14¾ x 14¾in. (37.5 x 37.5cm.)

Specialist note

"She called me up and said it was her birthday and would I come and I said, 'How terrific.'...The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake." (Diane Arbus, Revelations, 2003, p. 198)