Joel-Peter Witkin
(born 1939)
Female King, New Mexico, 1997
(born 1939)
Female King, New Mexico, 1997
Sale 1183 - Photographs
May 2, 2023
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$4,410
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Joel-Peter Witkin
(born 1939)
Female King, New Mexico, 1997
(born 1939)
Female King, New Mexico, 1997
Oversized gelatin silver print, signed, titled, dated and numbered '1/12' in pencil on the verso.
image: 29 1/8 x 26in. (74 x 66cm.)
sheet: 34 1/4 x 30in. (87 x 76.2cm.)
Provenance:
With Etherton Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Literature:
Townsend, Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking, New York: Prestel-Verlag, 1998, pp. 49-50, no. 31; Witkin, The Bone House, Twin Palms Press, 1998, pp. 168-169, (the unique encaustic illustrated)
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