JOEL-PETER WITKIN - Mexican Pin-up - Original
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Artist: Joel-Peter Witkin (America, b.1939).
Title: "Mexican Pin-up".
Medium: Original photogravure.
Date: 1975. Printed 1985.
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Overall size: 10 5/8 x 10 15/16 in. (270 x 278 mm). Rare. “Gordon’s” locates only one sale of this image, a silver print which realized $6,953 (£3,840) at Christie's, South Kensington, 6/29/2006, lot #155. Witkin’s controversial and carefully constructed photographs frequently depict macabre, often grotesque scenes, with images including torture, cadavers, hermaphrodites, dwarfs, etc. His works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Image copyright © Joel-Peter Witkin Rare. “Gordon’s” locates only one sale of this image, a silver print which realized $6,953 (£3,840) at Christie's, South Kensington, 6/29/2006, lot #155. Witkin’s controversial and carefully constructed photographs depict macabre, often grotesque scenes, with images including torture, cadavers, hermaphrodites, dwarfs, etc. His works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Image copyright © Joel-Peter Witkin. [29677-2-400]
Title: "Mexican Pin-up".
Medium: Original photogravure.
Date: 1975. Printed 1985.
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. Edition unknown, presumed small. High-grade archival paper. Printed to the edge of the sheet. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board. Overall size: 10 5/8 x 10 15/16 in. (270 x 278 mm). Rare. “Gordon’s” locates only one sale of this image, a silver print which realized $6,953 (£3,840) at Christie's, South Kensington, 6/29/2006, lot #155. Witkin’s controversial and carefully constructed photographs frequently depict macabre, often grotesque scenes, with images including torture, cadavers, hermaphrodites, dwarfs, etc. His works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Image copyright © Joel-Peter Witkin Rare. “Gordon’s” locates only one sale of this image, a silver print which realized $6,953 (£3,840) at Christie's, South Kensington, 6/29/2006, lot #155. Witkin’s controversial and carefully constructed photographs depict macabre, often grotesque scenes, with images including torture, cadavers, hermaphrodites, dwarfs, etc. His works can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Image copyright © Joel-Peter Witkin. [29677-2-400]
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Very good to fine condition; affixed to very thin and supple archival acid-free support sheet, not mount/board
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