Ida Ekblad - 20th Century & Contemporary Art New York Tuesday, July 18, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Herald Street, London
    Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 2010)
    Phillips, New York, May 16, 2014, lot 110
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    London, Herald Street, Ida Ekblad: A Clothespin Left on a Line, June 4–July 4, 2010
    London, Saatchi Gallery, Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany, November 18, 2011–April 15, 2012, p. 65 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    Matilda Battersby, “Gesamtkunstwerk: New Art from Germany,” Independent, November 14, 2011, online (illustrated)
    Apphia Michael, “'Gesamtkunstwerk' show at Saatchi Gallery, London,” Wallpaper*, October 25, 2022, online (illustrated)
    Ida Ekblad: Melted Snow, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Zurich, 2019, pp. 417, 493 (illustrated, p. 417)

116

To drink a glass of melted snow

signed with the artist’s initials “I.E” lower right
oil on linen, in artist's frame
78 5/8 x 62 7/8 in. (199.7 x 159.7 cm)
Painted in 2010.

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $25,400

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Nina Piro
Specialist, Associate Vice President
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20th Century & Contemporary Art

New York Auction 18 July 2023