Kiki Smith

Virgin Mary

Auction Closed

February 22, 03:50 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 250,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Kiki Smith

b. 1954

Virgin Mary

incised Kiki Smith (on the foot)

phosphorous bronze and silver

66 ¾ by 25 by 15 in.

169.6 by 63.5 by 38.1 cm.

Executed in 1992, this work is from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof.

Please note this lot will be available for collection from Dun-Rite following the auction and the successful purchaser will be responsible for collection, shipping and release fees. Please contact Jacqueline.Dishner@sothebys.com with any questions.

Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in July 2000 by the present owner

Kiki Smith and Chuck Close, “Kiki Smith by Chuck Close,” BOMB Magazine, issue 49, 1 October 1994, illustrated in color (online) (another example from the edition)

Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott, After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art, Munich 2007, pp. 199-200 (text)