Jeff Wall
Picture for Parkett
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:48:00 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 4,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Jeff Wall
b. 1946
Picture for Parkett
Executed in 1997.
Silver gelatin print
8 of 25 artist's prints
7 1/2 × 10 in. (19.3 × 24.3 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist
Jeff Wall (b. 1946, Vancouver, Canada; lives in Vancouver) was among the first artists to work with large-format photography, using the medium to capture highly constructed scenes that he displays as color transparencies on light boxes. In recent years, he has turned toward black-and-white photography, as in these images drawn from his life, including his son’s torso. The MCA presented a solo exhibition of Wall's work in 1995, and Wall is also represented in the MCA Collection. He has had numerous solo exhibitions, including presentations at Tate Modern, London; Gagosian, New York; Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany; Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York (which traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago); and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.