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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019

  • Literature

    Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 119 and p. 418

  • Catalogue Essay

    "For this serialized drawing with elaborate hand work, Gallagher has taken advertisements for wigs from the black photo magazine Ebony and preserved them through a series of transformations. Her wig ladies are fugitives, conscripts from another time and place liberated from the musty, yellowed "race" magazines of the past. With photogravure, plasticine, paint, ink, toy eyeballs, scissors, these icons are transformed from and back into the paper that has held them captive for decades."

    - Jörg Schellmann, ed., Forty Are Better Than One, Munich/New York, 2009, p. 119

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Ellen Gallagher

Bouffant Pride

2003
Photogravure with die-cuts, collage, paint, Plasticine, and toy eye additions, on rag paper, the full sheet.
S. 34.4 x 26.7 cm (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.)
Signed, dated and numbered 1/20 in pencil on the reverse (there were also 4 artist's proofs), published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York, for La Biennale di Venezia, 2003, framed.

Estimate
£6,000 - 8,000 

Sold for £8,125

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Edition Schellmann: Fifty Are Better Than One

London Auction 6 June 2019