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The History of Now: The Collection of David Teiger | Sold to Benefit Teiger Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art

ARTURO HERRERA | I. UNTITLED II. UNTITLED III. UNTITLED

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July 18, 05:51 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

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The History of Now: The Collection of David Teiger | Sold to Benefit Teiger Foundation for the Support of Contemporary Art

ARTURO HERRERA

b. 1959

I. UNTITLED

II. UNTITLED

III. UNTITLED 

[3 WORKS]


i. signed with the artist's initials and dated 02 on the reverse

ii. signed with the artist's initials and dated 02 on the reverse

iii. signed with the artist's initials on the reverse

each: cut-paper collage 

i. 14 by 11⅛ in. (35.6 by 28.3 cm.)

ii. 14 by 11⅛ in. (35.6 by 28.3 cm)

iii. 12 by 8 in. (30.5 by 20.3 cm)

Each framed: 16 by 14 in. (40.6 by 35.6 cm.)

Each executed in 2002. 


PROVENANCE

Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by David Teiger in December 2002

Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by David Teiger in December 2002

"Herrera's melting, weblike pieces are haunted by familiar ghosts that never declare themselves. In one of the more convoluted methods of post-1980's appropriation, their melded motifs are extracted from Disney cartoons (especially ''Snow White'') and overlaid with flowing linear skeins that suggest ink spills. They could be nicknamed ''Wet Pollocks,'' after Dali's ''Wet Watches,'' and evoke Surrealist techniques like collage, automatic drawing and image-defacement...[these works] clarify Mr. Herrera's astute and seamless hybrid of high and low, hermetic and ingratiating, and found, made and reproduced." 


Roberta Smith, "ART IN REVIEW; Arturo Herrera," New York Times, May 17, 2002