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Between Thought and Expression: Works from a Private American Collection

Kara Walker

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Auction Closed

May 20, 10:17 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Between Thought and Expression: Works from a Private American Collection

Kara Walker

b. 1969

Negress Notes


variously signed, titled and dated

watercolor, ink, ball-point pen and graphite on paper, in 27 parts

largest: 13 by 10 in. 33 by 25.4 cm.

smallest: 7 by 5 in. 17.8 by 12.7 cm.

Executed in 1995-96.

Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
Acquired from the above in April 1996 by the present owner
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kara Walker: Upon My Many Masters - An Outline, 1997
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Strange Days: The 4th Guinness Contemporary Art Project, 1998, pp. 34, 39 and 40, partially illustrated in color