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Kara Walker

African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from “The Marvelous Sugar Baby” Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse. (Rear Basket)

Auction Closed

March 1, 09:28 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Kara Walker

b. 1969


African Boy Attendant Curio with Molasses and Brown Sugar, from “The Marvelous Sugar Baby” Installation at the old Domino Sugar Factory Warehouse. (Rear Basket)

cast pigmented polyester resin with polyurethane coating (and optionally molasses and brown sugar additions)

59 by 25 by 33 in.

149.9 by 63.5 by 83.8 cm.

Executed in 2014, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.

Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York

Acquired from the above in 2014 by the present owner

Brooklyn, Domino Sugar Factory, A Subtlety (also known as the Marvelous Sugar Baby), May - July 2014 (another example exhibited)

New York, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Afterword, November 2014 - January 2015 (another example exhibited)

New York, Museum of the City of New York, Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York, November 2017 - September 2018 (another example exhibited)

Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Like Sugar, February - June 2019 (another example exhibited)


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