Lot 22
  • 22

Vik Muniz

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Vik Muniz
  • Raft of the Medusa (after Géricault, from Pictures of Chocolate)
  • Cibachrome, in two parts
a diptych of Cibachrome prints, each flush-mounted to aluminum, one with a Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, label, signed, dated, and editioned 'AP 3/3' in ink, on the reverse, each framed, a Brent Sikkema Gallery label on the reverse, 1999 (2)

Provenance

Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, 2000

Literature

Moacyr dos Anjos, James Elkins, and Shelley Rice, Vik Muniz: Incomplete Works (Rio de Janeiro, 2003), p. 184

Pedro Corrêa do Lago, ed., Vik Muniz, Obra Completa, 1987-2009, Catalogue Raisonné (Rio de Janeiro, 2009), p. 261

Condition

While these Cibachrome prints, flush-mounted to aluminum, have not been examined out of their frames, they appear to be in generally excellent condition. The colors remain rich and saturated with no apparent fading. In raking light, a raised area is visible in the upper right corner of the left panel. The reverse of one aluminum mount has scratches overall.
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