Peter Hujar
1934-1987
Dead Gull
1985
sheet: 20 x 16 inches; image: 14 3/4 x 14 3/4 inches
Gelatin silver print
Purchased on The Charina Endowment Fund.
2013.108:1.73
© The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS)
Inscriptions/Markings
Verso: stamp, "The Estate of Peter Hujar, Stephen Koch Executor, Printed by the Artist"; stamp, "Copyright 1987, The Estate of Peter Hujar, Not to be Reproduced Without Written Permission from the Estate"; stamp, "From the Estate #"; signed in pencil, "Stephen Koch"; in pencil, "EPH 1196-1"; in pencil, "Dead Gull"; in pencil, "HUJ 049 1".
Provenance
Peter Hujar Archive, LLC., inventory number: EPH1196-1.
Summary
Portrait of a dead gull, seen stuck upright into the sand, looking upwards, wings spread.
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