Kiki Smith - New Now New York Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “Casting is problematic, it’s like playing freeze tag, you cast people in all these different positions and they’re frozen. The wax museums didn’t make casts of people, they made sculptures of them. Casting, like photography, is a single moment. Whereas if you sculpt people’s faces, it’s a more generalized version of the person, but in a certain sense more accurate than one specific second of them.”
    —Kiki Smith

    • Provenance

      PaceWildenstein, New York
      Private Collection, Stamford (acquired from the above in 1995)
      PaceWildenstein, New York
      Acquired from the above by the present owner in March 2007

    • Exhibited

      New York, PaceWildenstein, Kiki Smith: New Work, September 16–October 21, 1995, pp. 1, 13 (illustrated, p. 1)

182

Untitled

signed and inscribed "Girl Kiki Smith" on the cleat; signed and dated "Kiki Smith 1995" on the figure's proper left foot
palladium leaf on silicon bronze
48 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (123.8 x 41.3 x 28.6 cm)
Executed in 1995, this work is unique.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$70,000 - 100,000 

Sold for $76,200

Contact Specialist

Avery Semjen
Head of Sale, New Now
212 940 1207
asemjen@phillips.com

New Now

New York Auction 8 March 2023