Oct 17, 2014 - Sale 2361

Sale 2361 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 11,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
MICHALS, DUANE (1932- )
"The Spirit Leaves the Body." A suite of 7 photographs. Silver prints, each print is 3 1/4x5 inches (8.3x12.7 cm.), the first print with the title, in ink, in the upper margin, and the last print with Michals' signature and edition notation 16/25, in ink, in the lower margin; the remaining prints 2-6 with their respective number, also in ink, also on recto. 1968

Additional Details

From the Collection of the Herb Ritts Foundation.
In this rendering of the human spirit, Michals uses double exposure to create the effect of his ghostly other self. 'I believe in the imagination,' he wrote in the introduction to his 1976 title, Real Dreams, 'What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.'