Joel-Peter Witkin - Modern & Contemporary Art: Online Auction, New York New York Monday, December 2, 2024 | Phillips
  • “I like horrible things. Things that change us when we see them. I’m not a minimalist; I’m a dramatist… I make with the purpose to share and to illuminate the possibility that what is being seen is something wonderful and incredibly different.”
    —Joel-Peter Witkin

    • Provenance

      Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1983

    • Exhibited

      San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, Columbia College, Museum of Contemporary Photography; New York, The Brooklyn Museum; San Diego, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs, December 6, 1985–April 5, 1987, pp. 15–16, 24, 46 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 24)
      Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joel-Peter Witkin, June 5, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 29, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)

    • Literature

      Eldon Garnet, Carolyn White and Judith Doyle, eds., "Joel-Peter Witkin," Impulse Magazine, vol. 10, no. 3, Spring/Summer 1983, pp. 15–19 (illustrated, p. 16)

136

Penitente

signed, titled, inscribed and dated "Joel Peter-Witkin "Penitente" N.M. 1982" on the reverse
gelatin silver print
image 14 3/4 x 14 7/8 in. (37.5 x 37.8 cm)
sheet 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

Executed in 1982.

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Estimate
$2,000 - 3,000 

Sold for $2,032

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