NAN GOLDIN (B. 1953)
The Hug, 1980
signed 'Nan Goldin' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic print mounted on Dibond
24 x 16in. (61 x 40.6cm.)
Executed in 1980, unnumbered proof aside from a later edition of twenty-five

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired directly from the artist).

N. Goldin, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, New York 1996, p. 4 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 129 and back cover).
M. Holborn, ‘Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency’, in Aperture, no. 103, Summer 1986, (another version illustrated in colour, p. 39).
N. Goldin and T. Kawachi, Nan Goldin: Couples and Loneliness, Kyoto 1998 (another version illustrated in colour, front cover and p. 18).
M. Famighetti, ‘Ballads’, in Aperture, no. 239, Summer 2020 (another version illustrated in colour, on the back cover).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror, 1996-1997, p. 465 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, p.127). This exhibition later travelled to Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur; Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien and Prague, The National Museum.
Montréal, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Nan Goldin, 2003, p. 90 (another version exhibited).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, 2010-2011 (another version exhibited).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 2016-2017 (another version exhibited).
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well., 2022–2026 (another version exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum; Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie.

Other versions are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Fotomuseum Winterthur.

Please note the starting bid is now 6,000 GBP.