Candy Darling on her Deathbed
Item
- Title
- Candy Darling on her Deathbed
- Description
- Hujar’s portrait of Candy shows her in a hospital bed, surrounded by flowers, shortly before she died of cancer at the age of twenty-nine. A single rose lies on the bed by side and Candy adopts a vampish pose, her face heavily made up.
- Identifier
- PH_007
- Creator
- Hujar, Peter
- Subject
- Portrait
- Provenance
- The Abramson Collection. Gift of Stephen and Sandra Abramson.
- Source
- The Modern Museum of Art
- Date
- 1973
- Medium
- gelatin silver prints
- Format
- 14 3/4 × 14 3/4 inches (37.5 × 37.5 cm)
- Coverage
- New York, NY
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 The Peter Hujar Archive. All rights reserved.
- Item sets
- Peter Hujar's New York
