Live Auction 15348Post-War and Contemporary Art
Nancy Grossman (b. 1940)
Lot 41 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM KELLY SIMPSON

Nancy Grossman (b. 1940)

Arbus

Closed1 March 2018

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USD 225,000

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Nancy Grossman (b. 1940)
Arbus
signed and dated with nail heads 'N. Grossman 70-71' (on the underside of the larger element)
wood, leather, metal and enamel, in two parts
overall: 15 x 8 x 10 in. (38.1 x 20.3 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1970-1971.

Private collection, New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 14 November 1989, lot 405
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989

Specialist note

“While Grossman regularly refers to the heads as self-portraits, they are not made to resemble the artist herself. They speak to the malice and subservience of both psychology and worldly conflict…The life-size sculptures are startling for what they obscure as much as for what they expose.” (MoMA PS1, Nancy Grossman: Heads, https://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/333)