Lot 40
  • 40

Kara Walker

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Kara Walker
  • Untitled (Negress Notes)
  • each signed with the artist's initials and dated 96 on the reverse
  • watercolor, ink and graphite on paper, in 18 parts
  • Dimensions Variable
  • Smallest: 6 by 5 1/4 in. 15.2 by 13.3 cm. Largest: 10 1/4 by 7 1/8 in. 26 by 18.1 cm.

Provenance

Brent Sikkema, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Athens, Benaki Museum, In Praise of Shadows, November 2008 - August 2009

Literature

Arlène Bonnant, CAP Collection, Switzerland, 2005, pp. 290-299, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Some edges of the sheets are irregularly torn, which is inherent to the artist's working method. Some of the sheets are slightly undulated. Each sheet is hinged verso to the matte, intermittently along the edges and framed under Plexiglas.
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