Joel Peter Witkin @ Phillips de Pury & Company, Photographs, 16 April 2010, New York

Joel Peter Witkin, Birth of 1982, NYC, 1982. photo courtesy Phillips de Pury & Company

Gelatin silver print. 14 5/8 x 14 3/4 in. (37.1 x 37.5 cm).  Signed, titled 'Botticelli's Venus', dated and numbered 6/15 in pencil on the verso. ESTIMATE $3,000-5,000

Joel Peter Witkin, Penitente, New Mexico, 1982. photo courtesy Phillips de Pury & Company

Gelatin silver print. 14 5/8 x 14 3/4 in. (37.1 x 37.5 cm).  Signed, titled, dated and numbered AP 1/4 in pencil on the verso. One from an edition of 15 plus 4 artist's proofs. ESTIMATE $3,000-5,000

LITERATURE Celant, Witkin, pl. 29

Joel Peter Witkin, The American Way, New Mexico, 1981. photo courtesy Phillips de Pury & Company

Gelatin silver print. 14 1/4 x 14 1/2 in. (36.2 x 36.8 cm).  Signed, titled, dated and numbered 4/15 in pencil on the verso. ESTIMATE $1,500-2,500

EXHIBITED Joel-Peter Witkin, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 14 October 1995- 14 January 1996

Phillips de Pury & Company. Photographs. 16 April 2010. New York