Nan Goldin
Pawel's Back, East Hampton, NY

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Artist Nan Goldin (American, born 1953)American, born 1953

CultureAmerican

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Pawel's Back, East Hampton, NY

Date1996

Place depictedEast Hampton, New York, United States

MediumSilver dye bleach print

DimensionsImage: 26 × 38 9/16 in. (66 × 98 cm)
Sheet: 27 3/8 × 39 15/16 in. (69.5 × 101.5 cm)
Frame: 29 5/16 × 41 1/8 × 1 15/16 in. (74.5 × 104.5 × 5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Nina and Michael Zilkha. The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.3200

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionNan Goldin rose to prominence with photographs that chronicled her life in the subcultures of New York’s music and art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, the post-Stonewall gay world and AIDS crisis, and the drug culture sometimes referred to as “heroin chic.” Goldin’s deeply personal images have been highly influential, giving birth to a diaristic and confessional strain of photography that has been widely embraced by contemporary photographers.
ProvenanceArtist's studio; [Frankel Gallery, San Francisco]; Manfred Heiting; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History"Nan Goldin: Stories Retold," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 18, 2007–March 30, 2008.

"Nan Goldin: Family History," Portland Museum of Art, Maine, September 29–December 31, 2017.

"The Marzio Years: Transforming the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1982–2010," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 25, 2020–January 10, 2021.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscribed in black, verso, lower center: "Pawel's Back, East Hampton 1996 / [signature] #7/15"

Signed in black, verso, lower right: "Nan Goldin"

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