Fine Art, Old Masters to Contemporary

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Lot 618A
  • 618A

Keith Sonnier b. 1941

Estimate
1,000 - 2,000 USD
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Description

  • Keith Sonnier
  • Black Light, White Light A
  • color photograph, from a videotape
  • 22 3/4 by 30 in.
  • 57.8 by 76.2 cm.
  • executed in 1972, this work is unique

Provenance

Leo Castelli, New York

Catalogue Note

Keith Sonnier pioneered the use of videotape as an artform, starting as early as 1970, less than a year after the first standardized-format video tape recorders became available from Japanese manufacturers (Sony would introduce the cassette VTR in 1971).  He also innovated large-screen projection of videos, as well as lifting still photographic images from video, deliberately exploiting the graininess and color distortions of the medium; the present work is a very early example of this art form.