VIK MUNIZ | HAYSTACKS #5, AFTER MONET (PICTURES OF COLOR SERIES)
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Property from A Distinguished Private Collection
VIK MUNIZ
b.1961
HAYSTACKS #5, AFTER MONET (PICTURES OF COLOR SERIES)
signed and dated 2001 on the label affixed to the reverse
c-print
Sheet: 48 by 66 in. (122 by 167.7 cm)
Framed: 51½ by 70⅛ in. (130.8 by 178 cm.)
Executed in 2001, this work is number 5 from an edition of 10, plus 5 artist's proofs.
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Pedro Corrêa do Lago, ed., Vik Muniz: Obra Completa, 1987-2009, Catálogo Raisonné, Rio de Janeiro, 2009, p. 456, illustrated in color
Photographer and mixed-media artist Vik Muniz is best known for repurposing everyday materials in order to create heavily intricate recreations of canonical works of art. Muniz employs a plethora of medium, ranging from trash to peanut butter and jelly, to create his compositions. Haystack #5, After Monet takes as inspiration Monet’s iconic series of haystacks, in which Monet studied the effects of light upon these mounds at various times of day and year. Here, Muniz used squares from a color chart to reconstruct the original composition. Vik Muniz’s works are in the collections of Tate, London and Museum of Modern Art, New York.