Lot Essay
The poignant self-portrait offered in the present lot was gifted by Hujar, who died of AIDS in 1987, to Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien. Dr. Friedman-Kien was among the first doctors to, in 1981, recognize a group of cancer cases that were rare and abnormally aggressive in gay men in New York and California known at the time as Kaposi’s Sarcoma, and later, AIDS.