Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Artpace 25th Anniversary Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Glenn Ligon
Self-Portrait at Nine Years Old
Lot Closed
September 28, 06:08 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Glenn Ligon (b. 1960)
Self-Portrait at Nine Years Old
2008
Signed lower right
Pigmented linen pulp on paper
Edition AP 2/5
12 x 12 in.
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Gift of the Artist
Glenn Ligon’s conceptual artwork explores race, gender, and identity. His artworks often examine cultural and social identities through photographs, historical texts, popular figures, and so on. Self-Portrait at Nine Years Old is part of a series in which Ligon used images of his childhood music idols to represent himself as a child. This paper-pulp print depicts James Brown created through black dots on a baby blue background. In an interview with David Drogin, Ligon said, “It’s not simply about a kind of identity formation in the sense of ‘these are people I want to emulate.’ It was more about, ‘these are the people who are speaking to me at the moment.’”