Lot 403
  • 403

Joseph Grigely

Estimate
6,000 - 9,000 USD
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Description

  • Joseph Grigely
  • SELECTED IMAGES OF HANDS WRITING
  • Each edition 1 or 2 of 3
  • Three R-prints
3 chromogenic prints, comprising Josephine P., Rotterdam; Amy V., Ghent; and Wassily Z., Vienna; each framed, signed in ink and with Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum exhibition, and printed information labels on the reverse, 1996 and 1997, each no. 1 or 2 in an edition of 3 (3)

Provenance

Nathalie Karg, Ltd., New York, 1998

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)

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Show of Hands: Photographs and Sculpture from the Buhl Collection, January - March 2008

Seoul, South Korea, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Asian tour), March - May 2009, and 2 other Asian venues through 2011 (see Appendix 1)

Literature

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 74 and 221 (these prints)

Condition

These chromogenic prints are in essentially excellent condition. The colors remain rich and saturated, with no apparent fading. Each print is hinged to a mat with a strip of masking tape along its upper margin edge. Wassily Z., Wien - This print is edition number 2 of 3. Josephine P., Rotterdam - This print is edition number 1 of 3. Amy V., Ghent - This print is edition number 1 of 3.
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