Lot 10
  • 10

Jeff Wall

Estimate
650,000 - 850,000 USD
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Description

  • Jeff Wall
  • Sunken Area
  • transparency in lightbox
  • 85 7/8 x 107 7/8 in. 218.1 x 274 cm.
  • Executed in 1996, this work is number 1 from an edition of 2 plus one artist's proof.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in June 1997

Exhibited

Gainesville, University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art; Knoxville, Knoxville Museum of Art; Athens, University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art; Norfolk, The Chrysler Museum of Art; Purchase, Neuberger Museum, Inner Eye, March 1998 - April 2000, p. 51, illustrated in color
Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Jeff Wall: Figures & Places: Ausgewählte Werke von 1978 bis 2000, September 2001 - March 2002, pp. 34 and 35, illustrated in color (details) and p. 188 (text reference)
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Jeff Wall, February 2007 - January 2008, p. 113, illustrated in color

Literature

José Miguel G. Cortés," Suspended time: Fragility and dramatism in the work of Jeff Wall and Pepe Espaliú" in Exh. Cat., Castello, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Jeff Wall, Pepe Espaliú: Temps Suspés, 1999, illustrated (another example)
Juan Cruz in Exh. Cat., Leeds, Henry Moore Institute, Here and Now II: Jeff Wall, 1999, p. 39, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Montreal, Musée d'Art contemporain de Montréal, Jeff Wall: Works 1990-1998, 1999, pp. 12, 19, 84, and 90, illustrated (another example)
Exh. Cat., Venice, Biennial Venice, Giardini di Castello, Arsenale, 49. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte: Platea dell'umanitá, 2001 (another example)
Charles-Arthur Boyer, "Les temps modernes de Jeff Wall," Beaux-arts Magazine, no. 223, December 2002, illustrated (edition unknown)
Exh. Cat., Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Jeff Wall: Tableau, 2004 (another example)
Theodora Vischer and Heidi Naef, eds., Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné, 1978 - 2004, Basel, 2005, cat. no. 67, p. 165, illustrated in color and p. 367, illustrated (edition unknown)

Condition

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