Photographs
Photographs
About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs
Giuseppe Penone
Svolgere la Propria Pelle (To Unravel One's Own Skin)
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April 10, 02:33 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
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About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs
Giueseppe Penone
b. 1947
Svolgere la Propria Pelle (To Unravel One's Own Skin)
a sequence of 7 zinc-plate photo-collages, each mounted, one signed, dated and editioned '2/25' in pencil on the mount, each framed, a Walker Art Center exhibition label on the reverse of one
each frame: 27½ by 42⅛ in. (69.9 by 107 cm.)
Executed in 1970-71.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Anjli Patel at Anjli.Patel@sothebys.com
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 2002 by the present owner
Douglas Fogle, The Last Picture Shore: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982 (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center), p. 232-33 (these prints)
Laurent Busine, ed., Giuseppe Penone (New Haven: 2012), p. 183 (detail)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, October 2003 - January 2004, and traveling thereafter to:
Los Angeles, Hammer Museum at the University of California, February - May 2004
Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, May - September 2004
Fotomuseum Winterthur, November 2004 - February 2005
Miami Art Central, March - June 2005
“The skin like the eye, is a boundary element, the end point capable of dividing and separating us from what surrounds us, the final point capable of physically enveloping enormous expanses…It is the point that allows me, still and after all, to recognize myself” - Giuseppe Penone
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