Lot 7
  • 7

Vik Muniz

Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description

  • Vik Muniz
  • 'Migrant Mother' (after Dorothea Lange, from Pictures of Ink)
  • Edition 5 of 5
  • Cibrachrome print
Cibachrome print, flush-mounted, a Brent Sikkema Gallery label, signed, titled, dated, and editioned '5/5' in ink, on the reverse, framed, a Brent Sikkema Gallery label on the reverse, 2000

Provenance

Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, 2000

Literature

Vik Muniz (Paris: Galerie Xippas, 1999), pp. 68-9

Moacyr dos Anjos, James Elkins, and Shelley Rice, Vik Muniz: Incomplete Works (Rio de Janeiro, 2003), p. 201

Pedro Corrêa do Lago, ed., Vik Muniz, Obra Completa, 1987-2009, Catalogue Raisonné (Rio de Janeiro, 2009), p. 405

Condition

While this Cibachrome print has not been examined out of its frame, it appears to be in generally excellent condition. The colors remain vibrant and saturated with no apparent fading.
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