Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Ana Mendieta

La concha de Venus

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection 

Ana Mendieta

1948 - 1985


La concha de Venus

chromogenic print mounted on Masonite

60 by 40 in.

152.4 by 101.6 cm.

Executed in 1982, this work is unique.

Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York

Galerie Lelong, New York

Private Collection, Palm Beach (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 12 November 2008, lot 526 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner


Miwon Kwon, "Bloody Valentines: Afterimages by Ana Mendieta", Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine, Cambridge 1994, p. 167, illustrated

Olga Viso, Unseen Mendieta, Munich 2008, p. 280, illustrated in color

Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Making their Mark, Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, February - December 1989, pp. 186, 288-289

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Des Moines Art Center and Miami Art Museum, Ana Mendieta: Earth BodySculpture and Performance, 1972-1985, July 2004 - January 2006, p. 102, illustrated in color