Diane Arbus

'Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N. Y. C.'

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Art House: The collects ion of Chara Schreyer

Diane Arbus

1926 - 1971

'Boy with a straw hat waiting to march in a pro-war parade, N. Y. C.'

gelatin silver print, a plate from A Box of Ten Photographs (New York, 1970), the photographer's facsimile signature label, signed by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter, titled and dated by Neil Selkirk and with the photographer's reproduction and portfolio stamp, editioned '14/50' in ink, on the reverse, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse

image: 14¾ by 14¾ in. (37.5 by 37.5 cm.)

frame: 23¼ by 23 in. (59.1 by 58.4 cm.)

Executed in 1967, printed posthumously by Neil Selkirk.

Private collects ion

Sotheby's New York, 2 October 1996, Sale 6888, Lot 399

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Acquired from the above in 1997 by the present owner

Artforum, May 1971, cover

Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, eds., Diane Arbus (Aperture, 1972), unpaginated

John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the collects ion of The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1973), p. 207

Peter Galassi, American Photography 1890-1965 from The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 1995), p. 237

Diane Arbus: Revelations (New York, 2003), pp. 87 and 188