Lot 43
  • 43

Annette Messager

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • Annette Messager
  • Mes Vouex
  • numbered consecutively on the reverse of each element

  • black and white photographs, tape and string assemblage in artist's frame, in 16 parts

  • overall: 83 3/4 by 6 in.
  • 299.7 by 15.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1989.

Provenance

Private Collection, California
Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
Sotheby's, New York, November 13, 2002, lot 469
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Musée de Grenoble; Kunstverein Bonn; Musée des Roche-sur-Yon, Annette Messager: Comédie Tragédie 1971 - 1989, December 1989 - June 1990, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are 16 parts. Each with minor surface soiling. The tape is slightly discolored in places and there are scattered areas where the edges are fraying. Installation instructions are included with the work.
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