Sold for $4,410

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Lot Description

Joel-Peter Witkin
(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)

Condition Report

Subtly warm toned print on semi-gloss double-weight paper with margins; very soft crease in upper right margin, not affecting image. A beautiful print in very good/ excellent condition.

framed: 42 1/8 x 38 1/8in. (107 x 96.8cm.)

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