Lot 425
  • 425

LOUISE LAWLER | Painting and Sculpture

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Louise Lawler
  • Painting and Sculpture
  • i. signed with the artist's initials on the reverseii. signed, dated 1988/89 and numbered 2/5 on the reverse
  • cibachrome print, in two parts
  • each: 47 3/4 by 40 7/8 in. 121.3 by 104.1 cm.
  • Executed in 1988-1989, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5, plus 1 artist's proof.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Private Collection, Paris
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Acquired from the above by David Teiger in March 2002

Literature

Louise Lawler, An Arrangement of Pictures, New York 2000, n.p., illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of scattered faint surface scratches through, only visible upon close inspection and in certain raking light. The bottom right corner of the right panel and the bottom left corner of the left panel is faintly creased and curling away from the backing board support. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

"Louise Lawler's photographs uncover the hidden interests, desires and declarations of those involved in presenting works of art; her photographs are engaged in a project to illuminate perception, to elucidate the senses... Photography is, for Louise Lawler, the handmaid of the physiognomic gaze: it does not reveal by representing a work of art, but by showing it in its own revealing situation, where it has been placed by people who have linked it to their own interests and desires; she shows the work of art with its framing, context and location." Johannes Meinhardt, "The Sites of Art Photographing the In-Between," in Louise Lawler, An Arrangement of Pictures, New York 2000