The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Glenn Ligon

Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice)

Auction Closed

November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Glenn Ligon

(b. 1960)


Untitled (I Lost My Voice I Found My Voice)

signed, titled and dated 1991 (on the reverse)

oil stick, gesso and graphite on wood panel

80 by 30 in. 203.2 by 76.2 cm.

Executed in 1991. 

Max Protetch Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in June 1991 by the present owner

Glenn Ligon, Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews, New Haven, 2011, p. 14

Carol Vogel, “The Inside Story on Outsiderness,” The New York Times, 24 February 2011, Section AR, p. 1

Lynne Cooke, "Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions," Artforum, vol. 54, no. 3, November 2015, p. 295

Thelma Golden, “Elsewhere,” Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Summer/Fall 2015, p. 30

John Thomason, "Norton's New Exhibition a Trove of Contemporary Art Riches," Boca Magazine, 16 March 2022, illustrated in color (online)

Florence Waters, "Encounters and Collisions: Glenn Ligon looks back on history in his latest, exploratory exhibition," Wallpaper, 14 October 2022 (online)

Japan, Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Tokushima Modern Art Museum; Nishionomiya, Otani Memorial Art Museum; and Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, Dream Singers,Story Tellers: An African American Presence, November 1992 - March 1994, no. 150, pp. 55, 136, illustrated in color, and p. 235

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Fighting Words: Voices of Dissent: Social, Political and Environmental Statements, February - April 2008 

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, March 2011 - May 2012, no. 22, pp. 104-105, illustrated in color (detail), p. 105, illustrated in color and p. 273

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Visual Conversations: Selections from the Collection, September - April 2013 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Literary Devices, October 2014 - March 2015

Tate Liverpool; and Nottingham Contemporary, Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, April - October 2015, p. 37, illustrated in color and p. 277

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022