Lot 228
  • 228

Alfredo Jaar (b. 1956)

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Alfredo Jaar
  • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
  • ed. 4/5

  • two lightboxes with color transparencies

  • each: 20 1/2 by 20 1/2 by 5 1/4 in.
  • 52 by 52 by 13.3 cm
  • Executed in 1988.

Provenance

Sale: Christie's, New York, November 14, 1995, lot 248
Sale: Christie's, New York, First Open Post War & Cotemporary Art, September 9, 2008, lot 131

Exhibited

Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Image Makers, October 1993-January 1994, p. 46 (one example illustrated)

Condition

There are scattered nicks and scratches around the edges of the lightboxes. There are a few scratches to the surface of the leftmost lightbox. Overall, this piece is in very good condition.
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