Lot 179
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VIK MUNIZ (B. 1961) | 6200 Yards of Black Thread (The Norvegian Lighthouse), 1995

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Vik Muniz (b. 1961)
  • 6200 Yards of Black Thread (The Norvegian Lighthouse), 1995
  • Sheet: 9 1/2 by 11 1/2 in. (24.1 by 29.2 cm.); Framed: 14 7/8 by 17 1/8 in. (37.8 by 43.5 cm.)
  • Executed in 1995, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.
platinum paladium print; signed, titled, dated '1995' and erroneously numbered '1/5'

Provenance

Galería Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1995

Exhibited

Mexico City, Cultural Center of Contemporary Art; Castilnovo, Hispano-Mexicacana Cultural Foundation, 'This is the thing: Art Object and Facilities of Latin America,' June - February 1998
Caracas, Espacios Unión, '29 Views of the Same Place- Latin American Photography of the 20th Century,’ March - May 2001
São Paulo Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro, 'Parallel: Brazilian Art of the Second Half of the 20th Century in Context, Cisneros Collection,' March - September 2002
Lima Art Museum; Santiago, Museum of Fine Arts; ‘Dialogues: Latin American Art from the Cisneros Collection’, July 2004 – February 2005
Mexico City, Museum of the Palace of Fine Arts, ‘Crossing of Looks, Visions of Latin America in the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection,’ August - October 2006

Literature

Pedro Corrêa do Lago, ed., 'Vik Muniz: Obra Completa, 1987-2009, Catálogo Raisonné', Rio de Janeiro, 2009, p. 195, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is window matted and cornered to the backing board. There is an undulation to the sheet. There is a very faint pinpoint accretion to the upper left corner, visible upon close inspection. Framed under glass.
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