Akim Monet - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, November 17, 2006 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist

  • Exhibited

    New York, Carosso Fine Arts, Passage to India, solo exhibition, June 19-August 10, 2002

  • Literature

    A. Monet, The Space Between, Trifolio, 2003, p. 30 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    "Akim Monet's photographs here rendered the classical architecture and sculpture of India visceral and molten. . . . Monet used his negatives as positive images, retaining the inversion of forms while infusing them with painterly hues, and in so doing, creating an otherworldly headiness. . . . Cave cathedral, a view of an intimate temple carved within a cave where Buddha is believed to have rested, is the color of burning-hot embers, lending literal radiance to a mystical site" (H. M. Sheets, "New York Reviews", ARTnews, October 2002).

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Cave Cathedral

2002
Ilfochrome print mounted with Plexiglas.
60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm).
Signed "Akim Monet" on a label adhered to the reverse. This work is from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $6,600

Contemporary Art Part II

17 Nov 2006, 10am & 2pm
New York