Young Circus Performer in Hat, 1973

Price Realised USD 8,820

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PETER HUJAR (1934–1987)

Young Circus Performer in Hat, 1973

Price Realised USD 8,820

PETER HUJAR (1934–1987)
Young Circus Performer in Hat, 1973
gelatin silver print, mounted on board
signed in ink (margin)
image: 14⁵⁄₈ x 14¹⁄₂ in. (37.1 x 36.8 cm.)
sheet: 19³⁄₄ x 15³⁄₄ in. (50.1 x 40 cm.)
This work was printed by Peter Hujar.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner.

New York, Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University; Vancouver, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Peter Hujar, January 17, 1990–September 15, 1990.

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Lot Essay

This stunning vintage print was included in the first posthumous exhibition of Hujar’s work in 1990 by New York University’s Grey Art Gallery & Study Center. In a publication accompanying the exhibition, writer, and then executor of Hujar’s estate, Stephen Koch said the following about Hujar’s fame at the time of his death: ‘In a way, he was famous. But it was a very odd fame. I am tempted to call it a kind of secret fame. His reputation was simultaneously widespread and covered; at once powerful and almost invisible.