Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection
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 Body, Sculpture and Performance, 1972-1985, July 2004 - January 2006, p. 102, illustrated in color
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