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Puerto Rican woman with a beauty mark, N.Y.C.

Artist:
Diane Arbus (American, New York 1923–1971 New York)
Date:
1965
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
26 x 25.9 cm (10 1/4 x 10 3/16 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Gift of Eugene and Barbara Schwartz, 1981
Accession Number:
1981.1245
Not on view
Inscription: Stamped in ink, verso TL: "Not to be reproduced in any way without // written permission from Doon Arbus."; stamped in ink, verso TC: "Copyright © 19__ // The Estate of Diane Arbus"; inscribed in ink, verso TC [after "Copyright © 19__" stamp]: “65”; stamped in ink, verso TR: "a diane arbus print doon arbus administrator"; inscribed in ink, verso TR [above "a diane arbus print" stamp]: "#4249-8-2U-1114"; signed in ink, verso TR [above "doon arbus administrator" stamp]: "Doon Arbus"; inscribed in pencil, verso TRC: "N.F.S."; inscribed in pencil, verso BLC, sideways: "N.F.S. // RMG#880.44"
Eugene and Barbara Schwartz

Arbus, Diane. Diane Arbus, edited by Doon Arbus, and Marvin Israel. Millerton, N.Y.: Aperture, 1972. no. 11.

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