Yvon Lambert, Paris Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Oslo, The National Museum, Museum fever: Works from the collections, 24 September 2005-1 January 2006 (another example exhibited) Oslo, The National Museum, Goddesses. Women who move art II, 2 July 2010-21 November 2010 (another example exhibited)
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.
signed, titled, numbered and dated 'Kathleen in taxi to Greer's funeral, Chicago. 1996 Nan Goldin #3/15' on the reverse cibachrome print, in artist's frame 71.7 x 103.7 cm (28 1/4 x 40 7/8 in.) Executed in 1996, this work is number 3 from an edition of 15.
