Lot 88
  • 88

Vito Acconci

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Vito Acconci
  • 'PASSES'
  • Six Polaroid Polapan prints
a sequence of 6 unique Polaroid Polapan prints, each flush-mounted, initialed, titled, dated, and numbered sequentially in pencil on the reverse, hinged to a larger mount, framed together, Buhl Collection and Guggenheim Museum exhibition labels on the reverse, 1971

Provenance

Addison Thompson Photographs, New York, 2001

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

Literature

Jennifer Blessing, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection  (Guggenheim Foundation, 2004), pp. 165 and 199 (this sequence)

Condition

This composition is in generally excellent condition. The reverse of the prints are hinged to a mount with rice paper tape.
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