Jenny Holzer - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale London Friday, March 3, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Private Collection
    Christie's, New York, 21 November 1996, lot 269
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Artist Biography

    Jenny Holzer

    American • 1950

    Jenny Holzer is a Conceptual artist best known for her text-based public art projects. Holzer's work speaks of violence, oppression, sexuality, feminism, power, war and death. Throughout the years, Holzer has employed a variety of media, from a T-shirt to a plaque to an LED sign. Starting in the 1970s with the New York City posters, and continuing through her recent light projections on landscape and architecture, she uses her art as a form of communication and commentary. Holzer's art hangs in important collections around the globe including 7 World Trade Center, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 

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Property from the Collection of Jimmy Belilty

172

Untitled (With selections from the Living series, Truisms, Survival series)

horizontal electronic LED sign with red diodes
12.7 x 73.7 x 5.1 cm (5 x 29 x 2 in.)
Executed in 1986, this work is artist's proof number 5 from an edition of 10 artist's proofs.

Estimate
£28,000 - 35,000 

Sold for £57,150

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

London Auction 3 March 2023