Kara Walker - Modern and Contemporary Editions New York Sunday, November 23, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Catalogue Essay

    Including: Cotton; L'il Patch of Woods; Vanishing Act; and Untitled
     

  • 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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PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE LANDFALL PRESS SCHOLARSHIP FUND FOR THE KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE

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Four Etching and Aquatint Prints

1996
The complete set of four etchings and aquatints, on mulberry Chine collé to Rives BFK paper, with full margins,
all I. 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 in. (30.2 x 22.5 cm)
all S. 18 1/8 x 14 5/8 in. (46 x 37.1 cm)

all signed with initials, dated, and annotated `LP' (Vanishing Act annotated `V') in pencil, from the edition 35 and 5 artist's proofs, published by Landfall Press, Chicago, all in excellent condition, all unframed.

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000 

Sold for $10,000

Modern and Contemporary Editions

23 Nov 2008, 2pm
New York