Lot 487
  • 487

Kelley Walker

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Kelley Walker
  • Untitled
  • signed and dated 2007 on the reverse
  • four color process silkscreen on canvas with newspaper collage
  • 78 by 54 1/8 in. 198 by 137.5 cm.

Provenance

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Grenoble, Le magasin-centre national d'art contemporain; Brussels, Wiels-Centre d'Art Contemporain, Kelley Walker, October 2007 - September 2008

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The surface is clean and bright. Any of the minimal lifting or wear on the collaged pieces of newspaper is presumably inherent to the artist’s working method. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

"I think of the canvas as having a mimetic relationship not only to the wall the painting might be displayed on, but also to the structure of the bricks and cinder blocks in the urban cityscape of New York." - Kelley Walker