Kara Walker - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

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  • Condition Report

  • Description

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  • Provenance

    Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2017

  • Exhibited

    New York, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Dust Jackets for the Niggerati and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings Submitted Ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker, April 21–June 11, 2011, pp. 114, 130, 137, 142 (illustrated, p. 114; installation view illustrated, pp. 137, 142)

  • Literature

    Kelly Crow, "A Slavery Chronicler Tries the 20th Century," Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2011, online (illustrated)
    Glenda R. Caprio, “I Like the Way you Die, Boy,” Transition, no. 112, February 2015, n.p. (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    Kara Walker

    American • 1969

    Kara Walker sugarcoats nothing. Her masterpiece public art commission, A Subtlety, 2014, was a 35-foot high racial confrontation of artifact, mythology and American history in the form of a sphinx packed from 80-tonnes of Domino white sugar crystals. Walker's practice first caught audiences with her haunting paper cutout silhouettes retelling the injustices of slavery and the foundations of American capitalist culture.

    Walker's immense talent matched by her cunning commentary has made her one of the most important contemporary artists today, having enjoyed major exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York in addition to permanent placements within the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute Chicago. Her auction market is strong for a mid-career artist, with works reaching more than $300,000.

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411

Cover of My Negro Novella

signed on the reverse
graphite and pastel on paper
88 x 72 in. (223.5 x 182.9 cm)
Executed in 2010.

Estimate
$70,000 - 100,000 

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024