Lot #1762: JOEL-PETER WITKIN - I.D. Photograph from Purgatory: Two Women with Stomach Irritations - Original vintage photogravure

 

Artist: Joel-Peter Witkin (America, b.1939).
Title: "I.D. Photograph from Purgatory: Two Women with Stomach Irritations".
Medium: Original vintage photogravure.
Date: Composed 1982. Printed 1985.
Dimensions: Overall size: 10 3/4 x 11 in. (273 x 279 mm).
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. Comment(s): According to “Gordon’s Photography Prices” a silver print of this image realized $6,875 at Sotheby's, New York, 4/6/2013, lot #233. Witkin’s controversial and carefully constructed photographs frequently depict macabre, often grotesque scenes, with images including 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. [29672-2-400]