Lot 439
  • 439

Jeff Wall

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Jeff Wall
  • Overpass
  • signed, titled, dated 2002 and numbered 2 on the sides of the metal frame
  • transparency in lightbox
  • 84 1/4 by 107 1/2 by 9 3/4 in. 214 by 273.5 by 25 cm.
  • Executed in 2001, this work is number 1 from an edition of 2, plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Cologne, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Jeff Wall, September - October 2002 (another example exhibited)
New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Jeff Wall: New Work, September - November 2002
Munich, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Jeff Wall, November 2002 - January 2003 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Marian Goodman Gallery, Jeff Wall, November 2002 - January 2003 (another example exhibited)
Madrid, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Fotografía Contemporánea en la Colección Telefónica, July - December 2004
London, Tate Modern, Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978 - 2004, October 2005 - January 2006 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; The Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Wall: In His Own Words, February 2007 - January 2008, p. 136, illustrated in color
Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Jeff Wall: Exposure, November 2007 - January 2008 (another example exhibited)
Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Jeff Wall, June - September 2008
Brussels, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, The Crooked Path, May - November 2011 (another example exhibited)
Mexico City, Colección Jumex, Now: Obras de la Colección Jumex, October 2011 - January 2012
Arizona State University Art Museum, Turn off the Sun: Selections from la Colección Jumex, March - September 2013
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Kunsthaus Bregenz; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Wall: Tableaux Pictures Photographs - Works from 1996 - 2013, March 2014 - June 2015 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Julie L. Belcove, "The Great Wall," W Magazine, New York, October 2002, p. 347
Daniel Kunitz, "Art Gallery Chronicle," The New Criterion, New York, December 2002, Vol. 21, No. 4, p. 61
Peter Schjeldahl, "Flashes of Light: Jeff Wall Retrospective at MoMA," The New Yorker, March 2007, n.p., illustrated in color
Rob Wilkes, "Drama King: The Stage is Set for the Narrative Photography of Jeff Wall...," We Heart, 27 February 2004, n.p., illustrated in color
Theodora Vischer and Heidi Naef, Eds., Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné 1978-2004, Göttingen 2005, cat. no. 101, pp. 228 and 479, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the cover
Sean O'Hagan, "Jeff Wall: 'I'm Haunted By the Idea that My Photography Was All a Big Mistake,'' The Gaurdian, November 2015, n.p., illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. All electrical elements are in good working order. There is evidence of a few scattered surface scratches to the Plexiglas sheet.
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Catalogue Note

"Like painting, my work is very much about composition. That is where the feeling flows – more so than in the expressions on faces or the possible social meanings. But I am not trying to imitate painting. In fact, my pictures are as close to Robert Frank or Paul Strand as they are to painting or cinema." Jeff Wall