Lot 17
  • 17

Alfredo Jaar

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfredo Jaar
  • Roma, Citta Aperta
  • lightbox with color transparency

  • 18 1/2 by 96 1/2 by 6 3/4 in.
  • 47 by 245.1 by 17.1 cm.
  • Executed in 1988, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3.

Provenance

Diane Brown Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Condition

In good condition.
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Catalogue Note

Chilean-born Alfredo Jaar has worked in a variety of media, including film.  The lightbox presentation, as used here, enriches the aesthetic beauty of the images, which makes them seductively compelling.  The subject here is the statuary which stand atop the colonnades framing St. Peter's Square in the Vatican.