Lot 206
  • 206

KERRY JAMES MARSHALL | Untitled (Sleepers)

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Kerry James Marshall
  • Untitled (Sleepers)
  • signed twice and dated 2015 on the reverse 
  • ink on archival postcard
  • 4 by 6 in. 10.2 by 15.2 cm.

Provenance

Visual Aids, Postcards from the Edge, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2015

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. The edges of the sheet are very slightly deckled due to the artist's chosen medium. There is scattered stray media present due to the artist's working method. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

“Extreme blackness plus grace equals power. I see the figures as emblematic; I’m reducing complex variations of tone to rhetorical dimension: blackness.” Kerry James Marshall