(Women) Artists

Shirin Neshat

Speechless

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Lot Details

Description

Shirin Neshat

b.1957

Speechless

signed, titled, and dated 1996 on a label affixed to the reverse; dedicated on the reverse

ink on gelatin silver print

25.4 by 20.3 cm. 10 by 8 in.

framed: 39.4 by 31.1 cm. 15 ½ by 12 ¼ in.

Executed in 1996, this work is unique.

Leila Heller Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Marco Noire Ed., Shirin Neshat: Women of Allah, Turin 1997, p. 32, illustrated in colour

Ruth Noack, Matt Gerald, et al., Shirin Neshat, London 2000, p. 56, illustrated in colour

Museum of Modern Art, Shirin Neshat, Speechless. 1996, New York 2006, online (text)

Arthur C. Danto and Marina Abramovic, Shirin Neshat, New York 2010, illustrated in colour on the cover

Robin Wright, Two Iranian Artists and the Revolution, The New Yorker, September 15 2015, illustrated in colour, online

Nell Frizzell, 'Interview: Shirin Neshat's best photograph: an Iranian woman with a gun in her hair', The Guardian, 5 January 2017, illustrated in colour

Alina Cohen, 'How Shirin Neshat got her Start as an Artist', Artsy, 1 March 2019, n.p. illustrated in colour

Public Delivery, Shirin Neshat & her Iconic Speechless Photo, February 2021, illustrated in colour

Turin, Castello di Rivoli, Shirin Neshat, January - May 2002, p. 84, illustrated in colour (ed. no unknown)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Without Boundary: Seventeen ways of Looking, February - May 2006, p. 30, illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum, Shirin Neshat: Facing History, May - September 2015 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middle East, February 2015 - January 2016 (another example exhibited)
Graz, Neue Galerie Graz, Shirin Neshat: Women in Society, January - April 2018, n.p. illustrated in colour (another example exhibited)