Lot 619
  • 619

Vik Muniz

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Vik Muniz
  • New York Movie, after Edward Hopper (from Pictures of Pigment)
  • signed and dated 2006 on a label affixed to the backing board
  • c-print
  • 72 by 87 1/2 in. 182.9 by 222.3 cm.
  • Executed in 2006, this works is number 5 from an edition of 6 plus 4 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Pedro Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz: Obra Completa 1987 - 2009 Catálogo Raisonné, Rio de Janeiro, 2009, p. 594, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is very good condition overall. There is a 1/2 inch vertical marking near the upper edge of the photographs. There are also some very light vertical abrasions visible in raking light along the center portion of the upper edge. Framed under Plexiglas.
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