Nan Goldin - New Now London Wednesday, December 7, 2016 | Phillips

New Now

London Auction 8 December 2016 

  • Provenance

    Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
    Art Contemporain, Paris, 23 June 2001, lot 357
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Nan Goldin

    American • 1953

    American artist Nan Goldin uses photography to expose the intimate and vulnerable nature of her personal life. Her photographs are raw, authentic, sexual and, at times, highly violent. Her most famous series, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, chronicles Goldin's life during the late 1970s and '80s, following the artist through the gritty, abusive and often dangerous situations she put herself through.

    The material being half-autobiographical and half-universal, Goldin attempts to depict the complexities of city living by way of diaristic practices. Having shot New York during its golden years, she has created an expansive archive of the AIDS crisis, drug abuse in the 1980s, underground culture and urban development.

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Nan Goldin

Self Portrait in Kimono with Brian, NYC

signed, dated, titled and numbered 'Nan Goldin 1983 "Self Portrait in Kimono with Brian, NYC" 24/25' on the reverse of the mount
c-print on board
65.5 x 98 cm (25 3/4 x 38 5/8 in.)
Executed in 1983. This work is number 24 from an edition of 25.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £8,750

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New Now

London Auction 8 December 2016