Lorna Simpson

Ultra Terrestrial

Lot Closed

March 18, 05:02 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Allan Hunter Jr.

Lorna Simpson

b. 1960

Ultra Terrestrial

i. signed and dated 2017; titled Earth & Sky #14 and dated 2017 on the reverse

ii. signed and dated 2016; titled Earth & Sky #32 and dated 2016 on the reverse

iii. signed and dated 2017; titled Earth & Sky #37 and dated 2017 on the reverse

paper collage on paper, in three parts

Each Sheet: 11 by 8½ in. (27.9 by 21.6 cm.)

Each Framed: 12½ by 10 in. (31.8 by 25.4 cm.)

The present work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Hauser & Wirth and signed by the artist.

Hauser & Wirth
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Elizabeth Alexander, Lorna Simpson Collages, San Francisco 2018, figs. 28, 30 and 20, each illustrated in color

“In Lorna Simpson’s ‘the black and the boisterous’ hair is the universal governing principle. Black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors. The hair she paints has a mind of its own. It is sinuous and cloudy and fully alive. It is forest and ocean, its own emotional weather. Black women’s hair is epistemology, but we cannot always discern its codes.”

Elizabeth Alexander, “Of the black and boisterous hair,” Lorna Simpson Collages, San Francisco 2018