Lot 125
  • 125

Vik Muniz

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Vik Muniz
  • Self-Portrait (from Pictures of Soil)
  • signed, titled, dated 1998 and numbered 2/10 on the reverse
  • cibachrome print
  • 23 7/8 by 20 1/8 in. 60.6 by 51.1 cm.

Provenance

Brent Sikkema & Wooster Gardens, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1995

Literature

Germano Celant, Vik Muniz, Milan, 2003, p. 122, illustrated
Pedro Corrêa do Lago, Vik Muniz: Obra Completa 1987-2009, Rio de Janeiro, 2009, p. 283, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is window mounted and hinged on the reverse at the top to the mat. Under raking light there are no apparent surface scratches. Framed under Plexiglas.
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