DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)

A young waitress at a nudist camp, N.J., 1963

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DIANE ARBUS (1923-1971)
A young waitress at a nudist camp, N.J., 1963
gelatin silver print
signed and inscribed 'For Jay' in ink (in the margin); signed, titled, dated and inscribed in ink (on the verso)
12 x 11¾in. (30.5 x 29.8cm.)

Literature

'Diane Arbus,' Camera, vol. 51, no. 11, November 1972, p. 12; Diane Arbus Revelations, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Random House, 2003, p. 72

Lot Essay

Diane Arbus's brilliant use of contrapposto places her nude waitress along a straight line from Botticelli's Birth of Venus to the bathers of Rineke Dijkstra.
This print inscribed 'For Jay' was a gift to Jay Gold, the lawyer who helped her get her car repaired by the unscrupulous dealer who had sold it to her knowing that it needed work.

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