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Rodney Graham
Meissonier with my thumb-print
- Estimate
- $1,500 - 2,500
Lot Details
Photogravure, on Losin Czech paper, with full margins.
2009
I. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (21.6 x 14 cm)
S. 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (29.5 x 21 cm)
S. 11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (29.5 x 21 cm)
Signed, dated and numbered 'A/P 6/7' in pencil on the reverse (an artist's proof, the edition was 50, there was also an edition of 9 with larger margins.), co-published by Donald Young Gallery, Chicago and Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, framed.
Specialist
Rodney Graham
Canadian | 1949Rodney Graham pulls from cultural and intellectual history through photography, film, music, performance and painting. He presents narratives with puns and references to literature and philosophy, including Sigmund Freud and Kurt Cobain, with a sense of humor that contradicts his residence in the post-punk scene of late 1970s Vancouver.In his film trilogy Vexation Island (1999), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999) and City Self/Country Self (2001), the artist plays characters like a castaway and a cowboy caught in repetitive cycles of actions and gestures. Such unconscious dream states are further explored in Graham's series of upside-down photographs of oak trees, which are hung to mimic camera obscura.
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