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Louise Lawler

La Lecture, 1924, Femme au Livre, 1924, Positioned together, Tous les Deux, ensemble, New York

Auction Closed

May 20, 10:17 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Louise Lawler

b. 1947

La Lecture, 1924, Femme au Livre, 1924, Positioned together, Tous les Deux, ensemble, New York


Cibachrome mounted on Sintra

image: 26½ by 38½ in. 66 by 97 cm.

sheet: 30 by 42½ in. 76.2 by 108 cm.

Executed in 1985, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5. 

Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above in February 1987 by the present owner
Christoph Blase, "Fotografie – in Szene gesetzt," Artis, Vol. 39, June 1987, p. 59, illustrated
Stuttgart, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Kunst mit Fotografie, 1987, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Geneva, Blondeau & Cie, Louise Lawler: Selected works 1980-2000 and ‘Helms Amendment (963)’, 2003 (another example exhibited)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Louise Lawler and Others, 2004, pp. 36-37, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Munich, Espace Louis Vuitton, No Such Thing As History: Four Collections and One Artist, 2014, pp. 14, 15 and 51, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)