Nina Simone Childhood Home: Benefit Auction Co-Presented by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and Pace Gallery | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Nina Simone Childhood Home: Benefit Auction Co-Presented by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and Pace Gallery | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Sarah Sze
Spell
Lot Closed
May 22, 07:09 PM GMT
Estimate
450,000 - 480,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sarah Sze
b. 1969
Spell
Executed in 2023.
Oil paint, acrylic paint, inkjet prints, acrylic polymers, string, and ink on diabond, aluminum, wood and paper
Overall: 76 × 111 × 3 in. (193 × 281 9/10 × 7 3/5 cm.)
Panel: 76 × 27 × 2 in. (193 × 68.6 × 5.1 cm.)
Panel: 76 × 28 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (193 × 72 2/5 × 6 2/5 cm.)
Panel: 76 × 55 1/2 × 3 in. (193 × 141 × 7 3/5 cm.)
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Acquired from the artist's studio
Sarah Sze’s Spell presents a richly textured painting that collapses multiple forms of picture making into a dynamic whole. Sze weaves layers of paint and scraps of images into compositions of sweeping arcs, thrumming lines, and shimmering gradients. In freely combining photographic imagery and painterly mark making, these restless
tableaux evoke the fluidity of the digital realm while retaining the aura of the analog and the handmade.