Modern and Contemporary African Art
Modern and Contemporary African Art
Property from the Neiman Marcus Collection
Elias Sime
Tightrope: Contrast
Lot Closed
March 31, 03:07 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 90,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Neiman Marcus Collection
Elias Sime
Ethiopian
b.1968
Tightrope: Contrast
reclaimed electrical wires on panel
80 individual panels each measuring: 23 by 40cm., 9 by 15¾in.
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018
Joseph L. Underwood, ‘Exhibition Review: Abstract Minded, Works by Six Contemporary African Artists’, in African Arts, Vol. 52 no. 2 Summer 2019, illustrated in colour p. 83-84
Detroit, N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Abstracted Minded: Works by Six Contemporary African Artists, 6 October 2017- 8 January 2018, touring to August Wilson Centre, Pittsburgh, PA, April 27–July 22, 2018