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Ana Mendieta
Untitled (from the Silueta Series)
- Estimate
- $35,000 - 45,000
$62,500
Lot Details
9 color chromogenic prints
stamp signed by the artist "Ana Mendieta" and "Raquel Mendieta" administrator of the estate; further inscribed with the artist's initials and consecutively numbered "AM GP: 0876 ED. # 7/10 image #1" on the reverse
i) ii) iii) iv) vii) image 13 1/4 x 19 7/8 in. (33.7 x 50.5 cm.)
i) ii) iii) iv) vii) sheet 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
v) vi) viii) ix) image 19 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (50.5 x 33.7 cm.)
v) vi) viii) ix) sheet 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
i) ii) iii) iv) vii) sheet 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
v) vi) viii) ix) image 19 7/8 x 13 1/4 in. (50.5 x 33.7 cm.)
v) vi) viii) ix) sheet 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Executed in July 1976, this work is number 7 from an edition of 10 Estate prints.
Specialist
Full-Cataloguing
Catalogue Essay
"I have been carrying out a dialogue between the landscape and the female body (based on my own silhouette). I believe this has been a direct result of my having been torn from my homeland (Cuba) during my adolescence. I am overwhelmed by the feeling of having been cast from the womb (nature). My art is the way I re-establish the bonds that unite me to the universe. It is a return to the maternal source. Through my earth/body sculptures I become one with the earth ... I become an extension of nature and nature becomes an extension of my body. This obsessive act of reasserting my ties with the earth is really the reactivation of primaeval beliefs ... [in] an omnipresent female force, the after-image of being encompassed within the womb."-Ana Mendieta, 1988
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