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Fred Wilson
The Queen of Spades
Estimate
$4,000–6,000
Live 24 June, 1:00 PM ET
2016
The complete set of three pigment prints in colors, on Hot Press paper, with full margins, with title page and text by Aleksandr Pushkin, all loose (as issued), all contained in the original light-green cloth-covered folio.
all I. various sizes
all S. 32 x 24 1/2 in. (81.3 x 62.2 cm)
folio 32 1/2 x 25 x 3/8 in. (82.6 x 63.5 x 1 cm)
all S. 32 x 24 1/2 in. (81.3 x 62.2 cm)
folio 32 1/2 x 25 x 3/8 in. (82.6 x 63.5 x 1 cm)
All signed, titled, dated and numbered 7/18 in pencil, published by Eminence Grise Editions, New York, printed in the United States, all unframed.
Full-Cataloguing
Including: Fool; Faro; and Fantom
Fred Wilson
American | 1954For over three decades, conceptual artist Fred Wilson has drawn our attention to objects and cultural symbols as he brilliantly deconstructs social and historical narratives regarding art, culture and race. Wilson is perhaps best known for his 1992 landmark exhibition Mining the Museum, in which he created provocative tableaux by selecting and arranging objects from the collection of the Maryland Historical Society to confront politics of erasure and exclusion. In tandem with his project of creating site-specific installations as a form of institutional critique, Wilson also uses pre-existing objects as a springboard for new work to explore the role of creating and shaping meaning.