The Leslie & Johanna Garfield Collection: A Celebration of Prints Evening Sale

The Leslie & Johanna Garfield Collection: A Celebration of Prints Evening Sale

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Derrick Adams

Style Variation 1 (Afro); Style Variation 2 (Waves); Style Variation 3 (High Top); and Style Variation 4 (Beard)

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October 18, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Derrick Adams

b.1970

Style Variation 1 (Afro); Style Variation 2 (Waves); Style Variation 3 (High Top); and Style Variation 4 (Beard)


The set of four screenprints in colors with inkjet and varnish, 2020, each signed in pencil, dated and numbered 20/30, from the Beauty World series, on wove paper, published by Tandem Press, and with their inkstamp on the versos, unframed (4 prints)

sheets: 687 by 509 mm 27 by 20 in

“My interest in geometric composition began with looking at Benin heads, Kwele masks, Kota reliquary figures and so on. The exaggerated forms, and the liberties that the creators took, are essential to a viewer’s understanding of the figure’s importance. I became invested in geometric shapes, their volume, and how one feels the weight of an image when something complex is broken down.” – Derrick Adams (Derrick Adams quoted in Style Variations, Salon 94, 2021)