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1 December 2023
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Joel-Peter Witkin b.1939

Sanitarium poster

1985
photogravure image: 18½ h × 18½ w in (47 × 47 cm) sheet: 26 h × 20 w in (66 × 51 cm)
estimate: $500–700
result: $567
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Signed to lower margin ‘Joel-Peter Witkin’. This work is from the unnumbered edition published by Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena.
provenance: Collection of Susan and G. Ray Hawkins, Beverly Hills

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I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. If there is pain in my photographs, it relates to the pain in my own existence. To me extreme things are like miracles. There is nothing as boring as a person who is just okay.

Joel-Peter Witkin

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