Name: DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971)
Brand: Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 1938 Debutante of the Year, at home, 1966
Price: 22000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

DIANE ARBUS (1923–1971)
Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, 1938 Debutante of the Year, at home, 1966
gelatin silver print
annotated in ink (margin); signed in ink, signed by Doon Arbus, Administrator in ink and stamped 'A Diane Arbus Print’ with annotations ‘#4259-2-0U-1620 (c)’ in ink, stamped Estate copyright credit and reproduction limitation in ink (verso); credited, titled and dated on affixed gallery label (frame backing board)
image: 15¹⁄₄ x 14¹⁄₂ in. (38.7 x 36.8 cm.)
sheet: 16¹⁄₂ x 15⁷⁄₈ in. (41.9 x 40.3 cm.)
This work was printed by Diane Arbus.

Gifted by the artist to former editor-in-chief of Esquire magazine, Donald Erickson (1932-1988),1966;
by descent to Arnold Rubenstein from the above, 1988;
by descent to a private collector from the above, 2011;
acquired from the above by the present owner.

Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus Magazine Work, Aperture, Milerton,1984, p.76.

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Diane Arbus was commissioned by Donald Erickson (1932-1988) of Esquire magazine to photograph Brenda Frazier Kelly Chatfield-Taylor in January of 1966. Frazier had been a popular figure since her teen years and was often mentioned in gossip columns and even song lyrics. This print of the former1938 debutante who once graced the cover of Life magazine was gifted to Erickson by Arbus in 1966. This portrait ran in Esquire uncropped in square form and still exhibits pinholes at each corner where the work was pinned up during the publishing of the magazine.