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Palermo Catacombs (3)

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Peter Hujar
1934-1987
1963
Gelatin silver print
sheet: 20 x 16 inches; image: 15 x 15 inches
Purchased on The Charina Endowment Fund.
2013.108:1.15
Provenance: 
Peter Hujar Archive, LLC., inventory number: EPH0145-1.
Inscription: 
Verso: signed in pencil, "Peter Z.[?] Hujar"; stamp, "From the Estate #"; in pencil, "EPH 145-1"; in pencil, "31"; in pencil, "HUJ 013.1".
Summary: 

Half-length portrait of a corpse in its coffin at the catacombs, covered from the neck down and looking away from the camera.

Artist page: 
Hujar, Peter
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Classification: 
Photograph
Department: 
Photography
Credits: 
© The Peter Hujar Archive / Artists Rights Society (ARS)