100th Birthday of Diane Arbus

Beyond the Horizon

Diane Arbus complemented her supposedly smooth history by unceremoniously charging it with a self-written antagonist role: as a fashion photographer and photojournalist, she contrasted the glamorously staged at some point with her pronounced interest in the different. The artist's tense life ended too soon - today she would have turned 100.

March 14, 2023

Diane Arbus, Untitled (3), 1970-1971

Diane Arbus

Untitled (3), 1970-1971

Found at Christies, New York (Online Auction)
Photographs from the Richard Gere Collection, Lot 192
23. Mar - 7. Apr 2022

Estimate: 7.000 - 9.000 USD
Price realised: 7.560 USD

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She contrasted the fashion world with the eccentric, outlandish, marginalized faces of a pulsating metropolis. Born in New York City in 1923, Diane Arbus worked her way from photojournalism into the glamorous fashion world. It was not until she came into contact with the Austrian portrait photographer Lisette Modell that the dam broke for a world apart from the perfect: travesty artists, people with visible disabilities, single mothers or fully tattooed men henceforth dominated her artful, psychologically accentuated portraits. Although she was featured as part of a trio in the 1967 New Documents exhibition at MoMa, she never completely turned her back on journalism, working regularly for newspapers like the New York Times and fashion magazines like Harper's Bazaar.

Arbus committed suicide in 1971, at the age of 48. A year later, the first U.S. pavilion at the Venice Biennale was dedicated to her. Arbus left behind a Solomonic oeuvre that does justice to both the immaculate and the outlandish; two worlds between which her depression could unfold unchecked. The Art.Salon commemorates the great artist, who would have turned 100 today.

Auction Results of Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus - Three circus ballerinas, N.J., 1964

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Est.: 8.000 - 12.000 USD
Realised: 10.080 USD

Details

Diane Arbus

Three circus ballerinas, N.J., 1964

10.080 USD

Apr 2024 , Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Diane Arbus - Uncle Sam in the snow, Washington, D.C., 1960

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Est.: 6.000 - 8.000 USD
Realised: 6.930 USD

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Diane Arbus

Uncle Sam in the snow, Washington, D.C., 1960

6.930 USD

Apr 2024 , Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Diane Arbus - Masked woman in a wheelchair, PA, 1970

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Est.: 8.000 - 12.000 USD
Realised: not available

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Diane Arbus

Masked woman in a wheelchair, PA, 1970

not available

Apr 2024 , Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Diane Arbus - Young couple on a bench in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C., 1965

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Est.: 8.000 - 12.000 USD
Realised: 13.860 USD

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Diane Arbus

Young couple on a bench in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C., 1965

13.860 USD

Apr 2024 , Christies, New York (Online Auction)

$Diane Arbus - \'Family On The Lawn One Sunday In Westchester, N.Y.\'$

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Bonhams, New York

Est.: 80.000 - 100.000 USD
Realised: not available

Details

Diane Arbus

'Family On The Lawn One Sunday In Westchester, N.Y.'

not available

Apr 2024 , Bonhams, New York

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Photographs

April 2024

Phillips, New York Auction

Est.: 5.000 - 7.000 USD
Realised: 8.255 USD

Details

Diane Arbus

A child crying, N.J.

8.255 USD

Apr 2024 , Phillips, New York Auction

Diane Arbus - Woman on a park bench on a sunny day, N.Y.C.

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Phillips, New York Auction

Est.: 6.000 - 8.000 USD
Realised: 6.350 USD

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Diane Arbus

Woman on a park bench on a sunny day, N.Y.C.

6.350 USD

Apr 2024 , Phillips, New York Auction

Diane Arbus - Young couple on a bench in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C.

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Phillips, New York Auction

Est.: 12.000 - 18.000 USD
Realised: 16.510 USD

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Diane Arbus

Young couple on a bench in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C.

16.510 USD

Apr 2024 , Phillips, New York Auction

Diane Arbus - A young girl at a nudist camp, PA, 1965

Auction

Photographs

April 2024

Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Est.: 7.000 - 9.000 USD
Realised: not available

Details

Diane Arbus

A young girl at a nudist camp, PA, 1965

not available

Apr 2024 , Christies, New York (Online Auction)

Auction

First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online

March 2024

Christies, London (Online Auction)

Est.: 5.000 - 7.000 GBP
Realised: not available

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Diane Arbus

Untitled (28)

not available

Mar 2024 , Christies, London (Online Auction)

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