Lot 281
  • 281

LORNA SIMPSON | Cloud

Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
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Description

  • Lorna Simpson
  • Cloud
  • serigraph on felt flush-mounted to board, in 9 parts
  • Each: 27 3/4 by 27 7/8 in. 70.5 by 70.8 cm.
  • Executed in 2005, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in March 2007

Exhibited

Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Miami Art Museum; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Charleston, The Gibbs Museum of Art, The Photographic and Film/Video Art of Lorna Simpson, April 2006 - December 2007 (another example exhibited)
Perez Art Museum Miami, Lorna Simpson, October 2006 - February 2007 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Jeu de Paume; Munich, Haus der Kunst; Bateshead, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art; Andover, Phillips Academy Addison Gallery of American Art, Lorna Simpson Retrospective, May 2013 - January 2015 (another example exhibited)

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The 9 felt panels are each individually installed. Under close inspection, there is some non-obtrusive wear to the edges of the panels, more noticeable to the four corners. There are some faint, linear scattered surface scuffs to all of the panels.
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