Lot #3089: DIANE ARBUS - The Junior Interstate Ballroom Dance Champions, Yonkers, N.Y - Original photogravure

 

Artist: Diane Arbus (American, 1923-1971).
Title: "The Junior Interstate Ballroom Dance Champions, Yonkers, N.Y".
Medium: Original photogravure.
Date: Composed 1962. Printed 1978.
Dimensions: Overall size: 15 3/4 x 11 5/8 in. (400 x 295 mm). Image size: 10 5/16 x 10 in. (262 x 254 mm).
Pricing:
  Starting Price: $225
  Reserve Price: N.A.
  Auction Sale Price Estimate: $300/400
Lot Note(s): Stamped with the photographer's name, verso. High-grade archival paper. Ample margins. Fine, quality printing. Very good to fine condition.
Comment(s): According to “Gordon’s Photography Prices” the auction record for a silver print of this image is $377,000 realized at Sotheby's, New York, 12/11/2014, lot #37. Arbus’s direct, confrontational approach to photography meant that her subjects did not always like their portraits. After seeing his, the writer Norman Mailer famously said, "giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child. Image copyright © The Estate of Diane Arbus, LLC. [27161-3-225-NA]