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  4. South Bay Singles: Couple on a Chaise Lounge

Diane Arbus

American, 1923-1971

South Bay Singles: Couple on a Chaise Lounge

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South Bay Singles: Couple on a Chaise Lounge, 1970, printed 1984

Artwork Details

Recent Acquisition

Materials

gelatin silver print

Measurements

sheet: 20 x 16 1/16 inches (50.8 x 40.64 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Deborah Ronnen, 2023

Accession ID

P2023:140

Object Classifications:

Photographs

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

Other Works by This Artist

  • Mae West in a chair at home, Santa Monica, California, 1964, printed later

    Diane Arbus

    Mae West in a chair at home, Santa Monica, California
  • Blaze Starr in her Living Room, Baltimore, Maryland, 1964, printed later

    Diane Arbus

    Blaze Starr in her Living Room, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Bishop at the Altar, Santa Barbara, California, 1964, printed later

    Diane Arbus

    Bishop at the Altar, Santa Barbara, California

Collection Highlights

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  • Street in Meknes, 1832

    Eugène Delacroix

    Street in Meknes
  • Nude Figure, late spring 1910

    Pablo Picasso

    The contours of a figure gradually emerge from a field of muted browns, grays, and greens applied with visible brushstrokes. Dark lines partially divide the background into a patchwork of loosely defined geometric forms. Similar lines more concretely define the figure, who appears largely in profile with one arm raised behind her head.
  • Janet, 1992

    Chuck Close

    This large-scale portrait is painted in grayscale with a nearly all black background. A grid pattern covers the entire surface, and diamonds, ovals, circles, and other geometric shapes fill each square. From a distance, these patterned coalesce into a woman’s face and upper shoulders; the effect is similar to a pixelated photograph. The woman has short hair, cat-eyed glasses, dangly earrings, and she wears a shirt with a rounded collar.
  • Les Falaises de Gréville (The Cliffs of Gréville), 1871-1872

    Jean-François Millet

    Beneath a looming mass of clouds that fills the top third of this painting, rocky cliffs extend into a calm sea painted in tones of grayish blue and green. A cluster of large gray rocks fills the foreground, and the remainder of the cliffs, dotted with additional clusters of boulders amid pale green grass, extend to fill much of the left half of the canvas. A thin line of white traces where the sea meets irregular, meandering path of the coast.
  • Le Peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter), 1903

    Edouard Vuillard

    Sunlight streams into a living room from open floor to ceiling windows on the left-hand side of this painting. A man sits with his back to the window, facing a child who stands slightly to the right of the image’s center on the room’s red-and-white striped carpet. A table with a decorative urn, a patterned curtain behind the child, and the rest of the room’s furnishings are also largely in shades of white and red with blue accents. The entire scene is painted in rough, loose brushstrokes.
  • The Inverted Sink, 1985

    Robert Gober

    A large white plaster sculpture that takes the form of a thick, inverted V hangs from a blue-gray wall. The apex of the V comes to a sharp point whereas the left and right corners are curved.
  • Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter), 1875-1876

    Claude Monet

    This wintery landscape features a path that follows a still gray river as it curves from the bottom right corner of the canvas and recede into the distance under an overcast sky. On the right side of the painting, smokestacks on a distant are reflected in the water. Four small figures summarily rendered in dark tones walk on the path, with one appearing to move toward the viewer. To the left is a patch of trees and grass that peeks out beneath melting snow.
  • Gap from the series Tiny Town, 2001

    James Turrell

    Gap from the series Tiny Town
  • Die Milchstrasse (The Milky Way), 1985-1987

    Anselm Kiefer

    A field of scrubby grass fills nearly the whole of this painting, except for a line of trees in the distance and a narrow strip of sky. The densely textured surface is made up of thick brushstrokes in shades of black and brown with a thin white horizontal swathe cutting across the center of the work. A triangular-shaped piece of lead dangles to the left of the painting’s center, supported by copper wires attached to the painting’s top corners. A second piece of lead is mounted near the lower-right corner.

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