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Christopher Wool
Estimate
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
Sold
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Description
- Christopher Wool
- Lazy and Stupid (S72)
- signed, numbered S72 and dated 1992 on the reverse
- alkyd on aluminum
- 20 x 14 in. 50.8 x 35.6 cm.
Provenance
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Christie's, New York, May 12, 2010, Lot 410
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Christie's, New York, May 12, 2010, Lot 410
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Catalogue Note
"By using the word in its capacity as visual material, leading to obscuring the legibility of the texts by accommodating them primarily to the impositions of the picture space, Wool made the viewer reinterpret the meaning of words used in his paintings, thereby underlining the failure of language as an effective, objective medium of communication."
Marga Paz in: Exh. Cat. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Christopher Wool, 2006, p. 201
Marga Paz in: Exh. Cat. IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Christopher Wool, 2006, p. 201