Lot 336
  • 336

Cornelia Parker

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

  • Cornelia Parker
  • BLUE SHIFT
  • 4 Polaroid prints
a suite of 4 unique Polaroid SX-70 prints, each signed and dated in pencil in the margin, framed, Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum exhibition, and D'Amelio Terras labels on the reverse, 2002; accompanied by a signed certificate of authenticity (4)

Provenance

D'Amelio Terras, New York, 2002

Exhibited

New York, Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, June - September 2004, and 4 other international venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

Palm Beach Photographic Centre, In Good Hands: Selected Works from the Buhl Collection, March 2011

Literature

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 150 and 238 (these prints)

Condition

These Polaroid SX-70 prints are in generally excellent condition. The colors remain rich and saturated, with no apparent fading. On the reverse of each print is a small white paper label with sequential numbering in ink.
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