Lot 30
  • 30

Mira Schendel (1919-1988)

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Mira Schendel
  • Untitled (Water, Only, God, Harvest, Fire, Burn, No)
  • signed and dated 64 on the reverse
  • mixed media on canvas
  • 21 1/2 by 15 in.
  • 54.6 by 37.5 cm

Provenance

Private Collection, Paris

Condition

This canvas is unlined and well-stretched. The media layer is stable. Overall, this work is in excellent condition.
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Catalogue Note

"Mira's writings are not texts. They are not about anything, and so they cannot be read as representations. They are pre-texts. They are what texts are before they become texts..."

-Vilém Flusser, April 29, 1967