Live Auction 372620/21 Photographs
DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)
Lot 319 An East Coast Collector

DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)

A Family and Their Car in a Nudist Camp in Pennsylvania, 1965

Closed31 March 2015

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USD 245,000

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DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)
A Family and Their Car in a Nudist Camp in Pennsylvania, 1965
gelatin silver print
signed, titled, dated by the artist in pencil, stamped 'a diane arbus print', signed, numbered '# 4090-12-10(s)-1620' by Doon Arbus, Administrator, in ink, notations '# 13', '69.565' in an unknown hand in pencil, Estate copyright credit and reproduction limitation stamps (on the verso)
image: 15 3/4 x 15in. (40 x 38.2cm.)
sheet: 20 x 16in. (50.9 x 40.7cm.)

Acquired directly from the estate of the artist

Specialist note

“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, ‘I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life.’ I mean people are going to say ‘You’re crazy.’ Plus they’re going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that’s a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.” -Diane Arbus