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Barbara Kruger
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description
- Barbara Kruger
- Untitled (We are your circumstantial evidence)
- black and white photograph in artist's frame
- 91 1/2 by 61 1/2 in. 232.4 by 156.2 cm.
- Executed in 1981, this work is number 1 from an edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof.
Provenance
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2006
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2006
Exhibited
London, ICA; Bristol, Watershed; Villeurbanne, Nouveau Musée; Basel, Kunsthalle, We Won't Play Nature to Your Culture, November 1983 - June 1984, p. 33, illustrated
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Barbara Kruger, October 1999 - October 2000
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Barbara Kruger, October 1999 - October 2000
Literature
Charles Miers, ed., Love For Sale, New York, 1990, p. 33, illustrated
Ann Goldstein, ed., Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You, Los Angeles, 2000, p. 3, illustrated
Daniela Daniel, The Woman of the Crowd: Urban Displacement and Failed Encounters in Surrealist and Postmodern Writing, Atlanta, 2000, p. 173
Ann Goldstein, ed., Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You, Los Angeles, 2000, p. 3, illustrated
Daniela Daniel, The Woman of the Crowd: Urban Displacement and Failed Encounters in Surrealist and Postmodern Writing, Atlanta, 2000, p. 173
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling to the edges and corners of the frame, which has resulted in minor paint loss. Framed under Plexiglas.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"Pictures and words seem to become the rallying points for certain assumptions. There are assumptions of truth and falsity and I guess the narratives of falsity are called fictions. I replicate certain words and watch them stray from or coincide with the notions of fact and fiction." Barbara Kruger, 2009