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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1994.1
People
Nan Goldin, American (Washington, D.C. born 1953)
Title
Self-Portrait in blue bathroom, London
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1986)
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1980
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/160473

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Cibachrome (TM)
Dimensions
image: 73.6 x 101.6 cm (29 x 40 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Nan Goldin
  • inscription: title, date, signature "#6125" and "NG 138.4" in ink on verso

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Pace Wildenstein MacGill, New York, New York, gift of Nan Goldin to HUAM, 1994.
Nan Goldin, New York, New York, to Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Nan Goldin in memory of Jeffrey Weinberger
Copyright
© Nan Goldin
Accession Year
1994
Object Number
P1994.1
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Nan Goldin and Marvin Heiferman, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Aperture (New York, NY, 1985 - 1986), 22
  • James Cuno, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Ivan Gaskell, and William W. Robinson, Harvard's Art Museums: 100 Years of Collecting, ed. James Cuno, Harvard University Art Museums and Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (Cambridge, MA, 1996), 311
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, Mass., Spring 2000), p. 92, ill. (color)
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), p. 242, ill.

Exhibition History

  • Chasing Shadows, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/21/1995 - 04/02/1995
  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Survey of World Art: Reproduction/Production, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 01/29/2005 - 04/10/2005
  • HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 3), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 11/13/2009 - 01/17/2010
  • A History of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016

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