From the Harvard Art Museums’ collections Self-Portrait in blue bathroom, London

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

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

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
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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

James Cuno, ed., A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions by the Harvard University Art Museums, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 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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