Contemporary Photographs

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Carrie Mae Weems

The Shape of Things (female) (from Africa)

Lot Closed

October 5, 06:10 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

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Carrie Mae Weems

b. 1953

The Shape of Things (female) (from Africa)


gelatin silver print, flush-mounted, signed, dated, and editioned '3/5' in pencil on the reverse, framed, a P. P. O. W. label on the reverse, 1993, printed in 2000

image: 27 by 26 ⅞ in. (68.6 by 68.3 cm.)

frame: 35 ¾ by 35 ¾ in. (90.8 by 90.8 cm.)

P. P. O. W., New York, 2000

Projects 52: Carrie Mae Weems (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995), unpaginated exhibition guide

Robert Hirsch, Seizing the Light: A History of Photography (Boston, 2000), cover

Quentin Bajac, The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016), p. 31

A print of this image is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2000.267). A print of this image is part of a diptych gifted by Robert B. Menschel to The Museum of Modern Art, New York.  A smaller print of this image is part of a triptych in the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art (2000.89).